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« Last post by Buster's Uncle on July 10, 2025, 02:41:10 PM »
Yeah - that's the conclusion I'd drawn.
Hey - some policy for you, since we're technically off-topic for this thread, but there's no ot in your own thread unless you don't want it there. -I slept late, and am still waking up, may not make sense yet.- As a matter of cordial behavior, I take a loose position on thread discipline, preferring to let conversations go where they want to - but you have the right, in your own thread, to tell me to get out, or at least not belabor some subject you don't want here - Uno has done exactly that to me in his Halloween/Uno's art thread when --- something political came up.
A member asked me to plonk about a page worth of derailing old posts in an on topic area thread of his recently, and I looked over the posts, agreed, and plonked. His purpose was served better w/ the ot stuff gone. I don't much like disappearing stuff, but there it is.
I'm not real strict about enforcement anywhere, less so anything in this folder -but I wouldn't mind if you stopped posting to poo-poo the view in the Volcano thread- more so in any on-topic area, and most so in Council Room, where I post important forum business, policy announcements and such, that I don't want buried in chatter.
This folder is for chatter, and it's my favorite board, frankly...
« Last post by bvanevery on July 10, 2025, 02:33:59 PM »
Rules are necessary at millions of users scale. r/truegaming is evidence of this. It's one of the only subs that delivers on its mission of higher quality essay writing, because the community standards are embodied in rules, and the moderator cadre enforces them. Additionally, community members report posts and comments that break the rules, which reduces moderator workload some. It's not feasible to expect moderators to read every comment at millions of users scale, although in r/truegaming, you could expect them to read every post. Turnaround times for posts are faster though, if a pile of regulars are flagging it.
At scales substantially less than that, the main rule I've seen that needs to be enforced is "Be Civil". Not much of a rule to have, but there it is. And I believe in handling that with warnings, not permanent bans. I get a 3 day temp ban in r/truegaming probably every 6 months or so. In smaller subs I've rarely thought someone should be banned, and have rarely resorted to blocking someone (my choice as a user). Lots of stuff can be handled with some version of "if we could all just chill" and then the stronger "you are REQUIRED to chill" if necessary.
Back in the days of my co-moderated gamedesign-l, there was a rule that disputing parties were expected to de-escalate voluntarily. Yes, that was a rule, which embodies a community standard. And when disputes happened, it was cited and enforced. Which had the tendency of doing the hoped-for social engineering, so that people didn't have to be told to do that the next time. Or not as frequently, as humans are humans.
r/4Xgaming had a run where some devs were spamming about their work too frequently. It really was excessive; I argued from the pro-dev position and do always advocate for the sub remaining a dev-friendly place. But yeah this guy really was hogging the talking stick too much. He got talked to by the mods, and the problem did abate.
And that's about all I've seen on Reddit in recent years. I don't inhabit the toxic cesspool groups. Since it's a big site, there are plenty of them. I have a teeny weeny footprint by Reddit standards. That's my way of avoiding their capitalist misfeatures and cutting some things down to community scale.
« Last post by bvanevery on July 10, 2025, 02:11:06 PM »
I don't think freaks are usually the problem or the reason to do preemptive forum moderation. I think it's about handling normal and semi-normal people's willingness to devolve.
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« Last post by Buster's Uncle on July 10, 2025, 12:16:00 AM »
The GURPS RPG was a licensed official product, wasn't it? ete was always on about collecting everything -but art mods- and putting it on the Wiki. Well, I say the kind of stuff you're always tracking down, relevant to SMACX and its history, ought to naturally belong preserved as best you can in that wiki format, as it's part of its mission.
Post in the forum, too, always, or I will mind, mind you. We are a forum that hosts a wiki, not the other way around.
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