Moderation

Mispache is small enough that moderation is mostly a person reading a report. The rest of it is the tools on this page: the labels that decide what reaches you, the ones that let you search away from what you would rather not see, and the report link for when something is wrong. None of it is hidden machinery. Every label the site puts on content is one you can see on the content itself.

Each tool gets its own page as it grows up. Only the Content Exposure Level explainer is written so far; the others are described here in short.

Content Exposure Level

A number from 0 to 21 on every post and page, saying how intense it is. You set a baseline of your own, and content above it is meant to arrive blurred until you say otherwise. Today the number is set and shown everywhere and filters nothing; the blurring is still being built.

The CEL explainer has the whole scale, more examples per level, and what a baseline is really for.

Tags

Tags say what a thing is about, in the words of whoever made it: the content tags a post carries, and the people it names. They show on the post as small pills. Where CEL is a rough measure of intensity, a tag is specific, and specific is what you want when the thing you are avoiding is narrow.

Interests

Interests are the words a person claims for themselves and a page is about: the ones you pick in your settings, and the ones that make a group or a page findable. They are how the site can suggest something you might actually want instead of something random.

Interests the site could guess from the groups you are in, but that you never claimed, exist only while a page is being drawn. They are not stored, and they are never shown to you as if you had said them.

Disinterests

Not built yet, and still being thought through. A disinterest is the other side of an interest: something you would rather the site kept away from you. The uses people have in mind are blunt and personal. A phobia you do not want to run into while scrolling. A subject that used to be your whole life and is not any more. Something that takes you somewhere you would rather not go. The intent is that you can name it and search away from it.

Reporting

Every post, comment and profile carries a report link. Reports go to a moderator, and nothing is hidden or removed automatically: one report is evidence, not a verdict, so nobody can censor anybody by reporting them.

One of the reasons is structured on purpose. If a level looks wrong, the report asks what it should be and for a single word saying why, rather than a paragraph, so the answer is something a tool can read later.

What the site knows, and what you can see

Your feed should be yours to tune, and that means you can see everything the site uses to build it. Today that is:

• Your settings: your CEL baseline, the interests you claim, your privacy level, and your theme.
• On every post: its CEL, its content tags, who wrote it, and who shared it.
• Your lists: the groups you belong to and the pages you follow, and the interests each of them carries.

What the feed does with all of that is deliberately dull at the moment. It is your friends' and your pages' posts, newest first, with nothing scored, ranked or filtered. There is no hidden weighting to reverse engineer.

The direction is to keep it that way while adding pieces you can reach: a baseline the site respects, tags and disinterests you can exclude, and a plain view of what each one is doing. An algorithm you can read is one you can argue with.