Manifold is currently running into some moderation issues.

• Spammers who join the site to advertise unrelated products.

• Troll who try to annoy poeple and create a new account every time they're banned.

• Market creators who create unexciting markets and then post them everywhere to try to inflate their trader count.

• Immature people who just enjoy insulting others.

• People who try to engage in good faith but get frustrated and end up making the conversation worse.

Currently, these are not being handled very well. Manifold themselves is pretty slow to respond, with spammers often not being dealt with for many days after being reported, and they can continue to spam in the mean time.

Market creators are given very limited tools to police our own comment sections; we can only hide comments and block people entirely. These are simply not good enough to maintain control over our comment sections and foster the community we're trying to build.

This market resolves based on whether I feel that the situation has significantly improved to the point where a lack of moderation is no longer a serious active issue for me using the platform. No specific features are a requirement for this, but some potential ideas are:

• Delegate the banning of spammers to trustworthyish users, with some way for the banned user to escalate the issue to an admin if they want to contest it.

• Impliment an easy way to dole out IP bans, preventing people from simply making a new account and continuing where they left off within minutes.

• Require some sort of identity verification when signing up, to make it harder to create multiple accounts.

• Move hidden comments to the bottom of a market's comment section, unless they recieved several likes or replies, in which case they should still be displayed higher.

• Give market creators the ability to ban someone from commenting on one of their markets and not the others.

• Give market creators the option to ban someone from commenting without imposing pointless costs on that creator, such as them being unable to see or hide the user's existing comments anymore.

• Allow market creators to set a time limit after which a commenting ban will expire.

• Reimpliment the untrustworthy badge and give the community the ability to flag creators who have handled markets dishonorably in the past.