Back when my comic's forums were active, there was a guy who was a super active poster but consistently hostile and insulting towards me and my work and thought he was safe bc he wasn't technically breaking any rules. Until eventually I realized I could just kick him out bc I didn't like him lol - ThreadSky

ass.golf • 73 days ago

Back when my comic's forums were active, there was a guy who was a super active poster but consistently hostile and insulting towards me and my work and thought he was safe bc he wasn't technically breaking any rules. Until eventually I realized I could just kick him out bc I didn't like him lol

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mrtoads.bsky.social•73 days ago

Insert .jpg of Palpatine saying “Powahhhhh!”

12adcatghost.bsky.social•73 days ago

Legitimately why go to a forum for that?

crazdgamer.com•73 days ago

That’s factually the best, most definitive method of banning someone from a community. They can’t rules-lawyer against “I own this space and I don’t want you here”

baneus.bsky.social•71 days ago

I think it makes them ultra mad because they didn't realise it was a thing either. After all, if they kicked everyone being a dick from their own pools, there'd be no one left.

roewearswaders.bsky.social•72 days ago

What a meanie, not you, the meanie.

randygrey.bsky.social•73 days ago

I spent so much time on those forums back in the day. I miss that style of board, before everyone went to social media sites

itbodes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Me, too.

chanac.bsky.social•72 days ago

This one gets shared around a lot, but it's one I like. Yes, it over simplifies things, but sometimes simple is a good start. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free_speech.png

actualadultjd.bsky.social•73 days ago

Just recently read a statement that your community culture is only as good as the worst-behaved member. Sometimes you just gotta tell the assholes to get a move on.

goronamber.bsky.social•73 days ago

People learn how to toe the line and mods ruin communities when they don't recognize that.

dasganon.bsky.social•73 days ago

This GDC clip about the topic from 6 years ago continues to be evergreen. (The whole thing is good)

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxDDb_UFMxZxb_v1QRE5pJRdYhVcuBkcvR?si=cvPNXbb1-eMWXM9T

stubobnumbers.bsky.social•72 days ago

Everyone/every site needs the "They're A Dick" rule.

baneus.bsky.social•71 days ago

Most sites do. Just about everything I'm a mod on has a variation of the following"
"Staff may kick you even if there's not a specific rule you broke"
"Staff don't have to tell you why"
"Staff may also kick you if you're being rude"

jpegofademon.bsky.social•72 days ago

Damn those forums used to be a huge part of my life from 2005-2010 or so so I'm speculating about who it was I can take a few guesses lmao

emtea.bsky.social•72 days ago

Preach! Long ago I've had an old forum and there was this one guy who was a prolific poster responsible for a lot of activity there, but eventually he poisoned the atmosphere of the forum by being hostile to anyone disagreeing with him, and by thinking he owns the place.

davidhsiegel.bsky.social•71 days ago

Did he go found the Bad Subreddit?

maxjes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Every single good forum has a final rule that says “these listed rules cannot possibly cover all of human interaction so the mods reserve the right to throw you out for novel innovations in shitbagery”

ducksauz.snug.town•71 days ago

Oh, that's good.
* Saved in case it's ever needed *

ass.golf•73 days ago

It solved the problem AND made him incredibly mad, so a win all around

elfsternberg.bsky.social•73 days ago

I'm glad you did. Most of the people on your forum are pretty good souls nowadays. Even FC and YB.

papahrf.bsky.social•73 days ago

*nudges Bluesky* Did you hear that? DID YOU?

kumatsu.bsky.social•73 days ago

Vibe based moderation is always correct

braddeltan.bsky.social•72 days ago

If I may ask: did it make other forum members feel it was a better place with this chode removed & blocked?

I don't care much if *he* was mad about it...but it matters a lot if it did, or did not, make those who remained feel better about the space.

braddeltan.bsky.social•72 days ago

Ok that's a lie. I'm all about the schadenfreude. 😈 But I'm trying to focus on the important bits of moderation. 👍

fullofmucus.bsky.social•72 days ago

I was never active enough on the QC forums to truly Know people there the way I did on my first forum, however, for all 20 or so of my posts, the people I encountered were nice. A little curation of the community is a good thing, imho

mcnutcase.bsky.social•73 days ago

There's gotta be a "you're a shithead and we don't like you" exception, or some bellend is going to do absolutely everything that's technically legal and make the whole place terrible.

dfarnitano.bsky.social•73 days ago

The Iron Law of Mods is what I’ve seen it called.

greytideskye.bsky.social•73 days ago

I keep seeing the "Nazi Bar" story getting thrown around in regards this vibe check rule.

fullofmucus.bsky.social•72 days ago

to clarify this is the one where you have to kick out someone that showcases they're a nazi despite pleasantness before suddenly all your patrons are nazis? Something about you curate what you tolerate, succinctly?

dfarnitano.bsky.social•72 days ago

basically it’s that the first Nazi will be polite and technically follow the rules, and by the time they’ve brought in all their Nazi friends and you’re running a Nazi bar it’s a lot more dangerous to kick them out. So you kick out the first Nazi for being a Nazi.

blubbator.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yes, that one. Here, the thread that mostly gets cited.
https://bsky.app/profile/blubbator.bsky.social/post/3lcptxqqaic2b

nocatsnomasters.bsky.social•73 days ago

This is why moderation-by-rules is not meaningful moderation at all and all real moderation is ultimately moderation-by-vibes. Rules, even at their best, are guidelines.

nocatsnomasters.bsky.social•73 days ago

Which is why Bluesky's current moderation is shit-tier; for all their work, all they did was provide a checklist for bad actors to work from.

dmh3000.bsky.social•73 days ago

Thinking about every webcomic forum I was part of back then, there was always someone like that. They were just there to piss and moan about how much they hated having to come back and read the comic, like they were court ordered or something.

a4rdvark.bsky.social•73 days ago

This is good practice for moderation, imo. Healthy communities don't tolerate that kind of behavior. Who hangs out at a party just to slag off the host?

samanthatendra.bsky.social•73 days ago

It’s like the “No Homers” rule

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