I've watched so many dysfunctional forums, is the thing, with a lot of dysfunctional modding carried out by people who had neither the skill nor the confidence to have any business modding, who didn't know how to manage a community and didn't take community stewardship seriously as its own thing. I've made the decision to leave forums based on moderation and known grimly that unless things were bad enough to take a significant fraction of users with me--and at one point, I was in that situation!--that I was giving up a lot of my ability to get back in touch with people later, including people who I was really fond of, and that my friendships would have to be very strong indeed to survive a platform migration.
Yeah, like Mucca said over in her space, the motto of this is starting to look like "trust the mods" or "it will depend on the goodwill of the mods," and that's....a lot to ask right now of fandom, I feel. For various reasons.
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Date: 2019-02-03 07:35 pm (UTC)Yeah, like Mucca said over in her space, the motto of this is starting to look like "trust the mods" or "it will depend on the goodwill of the mods," and that's....a lot to ask right now of fandom, I feel. For various reasons.