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Andrew Nelson@holophrastic.bsky.social |
You can tell who did and who did not moderate IRC/phpBB/whatever back in the day, because all of us who did learned the true shape of online group culture: your culture is the shittiest person you don't ban
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A. Parise
@jerseyoutwest.bsky.social
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And it’s true in real life as well.
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Dungeon Church
@dungeon.church
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lol there is a clear generational divide online with this. I used to mod a sub-sub-sub-sub forum of Something Awful like two decades ago. I did my time
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Jo_clever_ke
@insidejoke.bsky.social
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IF not banned the bastard that posts spoilers for Code Geass is the face of the community.
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wd south
@wdsouth.bsky.social
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"If you allow one Nazi, it is now a Nazi group." My PTSD was banning people only for another admin to be like"he's just being ironic, unban" and I'm like his profile picture is literally hitler so... Sometimes I really miss forums and other days I remember how much work they are
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Lev Mirov
@thelionmachine.bsky.social
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When I was a youth, a literal preteen, friends would give me mod powers on their forums as the mod whose ONLY job was to announce I felt it was time to enforce a ban because I could see who couldn't follow the rules or was causing distress and I didn't know them, so was immune to social pressure.
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Roger Grow
@rogergrow.bsky.social
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/trout
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Kid Yossarian
@kidyossarian.bsky.social
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The the worse they get, the worse your best person is because a lot of the good people leave.
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Fetch
@ameliafetch.bsky.social
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I've got a small TTRPG Discord, so I work with anybody whose causing problems. Usually it works out, but I occasionally have to kick or ban somebody. The clearest line is "is this person driving away other people from the server?"
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Jenn
@morgawse.bsky.social
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I first learned this as an IRC mod in my teens but what really drove it home was running/moderating Eve Online groups and spaces. Turns out you can make even those pleasant despite the notoriously ruthless and toxically-online demographic if you *actually use your modding tools on the problem*.
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Crungeoneer
@crungeoneer.bsky.social
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*looks at the notches on ye oldentimes irc banhammar truth
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Beth
@beth71.bsky.social
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Realizing how true this is at work too…
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Amy Hoy
@amyhoy.bsky.social
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very true we are the last, the few, the old guard
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Condor
@condor.bsky.social
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Abso-fuckin-lutely. I wish more people understood this.
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Estarianne
@estarianne.bsky.social
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Yep, or the shittiest behavior people guess they can get away with.
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Chet Faliszek
@chetsucks.com
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This. I don't try and win people over, understand or get to know them. It's a ban, instantly. We weren't doing this and the community just wasn't thriving and I took back over with zero tolerance and now it has exploded with conversation and sharing.
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The Almighty Tallest
@spooknine.bsky.social
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I have both been this person and banned this person
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AkivaMCohen
@akivamcohen.bsky.social
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I was a politics board moderator & community admin at dragonmount for a while, and YUP
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Nop (he/him) 🍉 PUSSY IN BIO
@voxexsinister.bsky.social
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📌
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Mors Rattus
@morsrattus.bsky.social
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Second lesson: moderation is not a form of government and not a court of law, you can run your rules with the Air Bud clause and not have to put up with gaming them on technicalities.
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Viola Smart
@smartvpants.bsky.social
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Yup. Sadly as a high school club advisor, I have limited ability to keep kids out of general club activities. Really let's a few kids sour things for everyone else.
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Matt Salomone
@matthematics.com
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Workplace corollary: The shittiest person you don’t fire, eats your strategy for breakfast
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@pnutzgg.bsky.social
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The standard you walk by is the standard you accept
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GrayGooGirl
@graygoogirl.com
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As someone who's moderated: A 2000 person second life community Several large forums (phpBB, SMF, and Xenforo) A sizable Discord server Several large twitch channels And leads moderation for a twice a year speedrunning event 100%. Toxic people spread toxicity when unchecked.
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Robin Bobcat
@robinbobcat.bsky.social
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If you're lucky, that's your mods. "Sorry, nope, I'm the token asshole here, goodbye."
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McNutcase
@mcnutcase.bsky.social
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I was never a mod, but I managed to learn that.
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nix
@nixnullarch.bsky.social
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So true. Discord I'm in recently banned someone whose behavior kept skirting the rules, and it's immediately so much more pleasant in there. Also: as long as you tolerate them, you lose good community members. If shitty behavior is the first thing someone sees, they leave and don't come back.
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Kevin Hovdestad
@hovdestad.ca
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Work, club, party, Discord server: your culture is the worst behavior you tolerate
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@phoenix-d.bsky.social
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I think not being able to moderate except by bitching at Faceless Corporation #234 or harassing someone til they leave the service has messed with some people's ideas of what online spaces can be, yeah
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mynnna
@mynnna.bsky.social
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it's nazi bar theory all the way down
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Holly Pettit
@hollypettit.bsky.social
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Omg yes. The Christian Mysticism group on Facebook is a bloodbath. So many sweet souls other to talk about Hildegard of Bingen and instead find themselves in a cage fight with hungry fisher cats.
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Maki Naro - Commissions open!
@makinaro.bsky.social
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💯
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Lizardguy64
@lizardguy64.bsky.social
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This needs to be said more often.
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