Sometimes we do it that way because it’s easier than the other ways. Sometimes we do it that way because we like the power.
Sooner or later the person in charge starts acting, not to stop the bad guys, but the fulfill his own agenda.
Or loose interest and the community falls apart, never a community to begin with.
Can be even worse when it doesn’t fall apart, because then they’re just optimizing for whatever requires the least work on the part of whoever is in charge.
I can think of a few communities that would benefit if their moderator lost interest.
Feel free to run your own community and show us how it’s done
Am I wrong?
That’s irrelevant to me. I see an account that is 5 days old who is already making very broad assumptions about communities and their history, having no context of why we have ended up here. I also check histories of people who make this post (and this is a very common post), and there’s always a removed post in their past that ruffled their feathers. So, you’re brand new to our community, you’re making broad sweeping statements, I don’t know if you’re right or wrong, go prove it.
Prove what? That’s literally how moderation works. (And more generally, and I was speaking generally, it’s how certain undesirable forms of nation-governance work too)
So, seriously, am I wrong?
seriously, am I wrong?
As I said, I don’t know, prove if you are wrong or not to us. Open your own communities and show us how it’s done, we won’t know until you prove it to us.
As I said, it’s literally how moderation works. It’s literally the software we’re running here.
It may be a bad way unfortunately it is really the only way.
Particularly for online communities. I have led various online communities mostly for WoW guilds and at the end of the day there is no way to keep everyone happy on all things. Somebody will always be unhappy with something.
If you have 10 people and 10 different elements at least 20% of the people will be unhappy with 20% of the elements.
The fine line you walk is determining the core people and the core elements to address. The rest of them you ignore.
What other ways have you seen people using?
