•  mozz   ( @mozz@mbin.grits.dev ) 
    4·
    2 years ago

    It is the cycle of life

    1. Mods are power tripping I hate this
    2. I’m gonna make my own community with decent moderation
    3. Jesus Christ these users are the worst thing I’ve ever seen, just a bunch of racism and spam and it never stops
    4. That’s it if anyone gets out of line they’re fuckin banned, I don’t have time for this thing which has become a part time job and it never stops and everyone on all sides is always mad at me
    5. Cry some more I don’t care
    6. “Mods are power tripping I hate this”

    (That is not even taking into account where someone is being a transparent dickbag and then whining when they get moderated for it, which I suspect is what’s going on here and why they don’t want to go into any details)

      •  mozz   ( @mozz@mbin.grits.dev ) 
        3·
        1 year ago

        This is more of a theory than anything I’ve tried in practice, but I think “go ugly early” might be good advice in moderation as it is in marathons. If someone’s being a dickbag just get rid of them. Temp ban for dickbaggery, perm ban for consistent or unrepentant dickbaggery.

        It seems like a lot of the mods try to dress it up in this elaborate system of rules and procedures like they’re only implementing the will of the great magnet, and they have no personal stake in anything. Just ban the dicks and people will either agree with your judgement on it or they won’t. But it seems, just from my observations, like trying to dress it up in a fig leaf of impartiality doesn’t really fool anybody.