>>7594>Funnily enough, it was this place that taught me that.Good to hear we've had a positive impact on the world, because you're not really wrong, and that was known from the very beginning. A list of rules can only be so detailed, and ironically the more detailed your rules are, the more likely it is that someone can disrupt the board while following the rules, while still claiming they've done nothing wrong and should be free to continue. The rules were left somewhat vague, especially for a professional lawyer, because while guidelines are useful, ultimately we have to remove people based on emotions rather than written code.
As an anarchist, being a mod has always been kinda weird. There's plenty of really obvious stuff to deal with, the stuff I always wanted to be able to deal with. Child pornography advertising, raids from off site, that sort of thing. No one wants that here, and on the off chance anyone did, the rest of us don't want
them here. There's no decision to be made, that stuff has to go.
There's also a lot of stuff that's less straightforward, though. Any time decisions come up about banning a recurring poster, there's going to be people that like having them around, instead. Questions have to be asked about what the purpose of the site is, and who we really want on it, and what its future is going to look like. And perhaps that, rather than logical rules clarifications, are what was really missing.
There's a feeling that the site was made for a group of people that were here at the beginning, but a whole lot of those people probably should've been permabanned by way of any rules we have, and yet if the purpose was to give them a home can we really ban them? We've lost so many people over the years, and we don't exactly get a steady stream of new users, either. We don't advertise at all, and there's nothing to really advertise even if we did. "Come hang out with a group of people you don't know that don't talk about anything in particular." The site's attrition and deterioration are inevitable with goals like that, and yet there's nothing really wrong with that, either, and I haven't been given any particular direction otherwise.
I suppose that's all just me rambling, thou
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