This is the kind of content we need, glorious
Jannies have never been good at relating to people, and reddit admins are like the jannies’ janny. Ban-happiness is inevitable.
Forums are an interesting model for real life human social structures. If you operate your social structural group in such a way that the only way of meting out punishment is exclusion, eventually you can create an outgroup that becomes a threatening competitor.
When your containment board is another website, you lose.
Seems like there’s enough content to actually get into the habit of contributing and exploring, but discoverability feels harder. At the same time, so much social media these days is a mainline, drip feed, brain dead thing. Just interacting with YouTube/Instagram/Reddit/Twitter makes my eyes glaze over.
I think just the right amount of friction is probably a really good thing.
I’m here because I saw a comment mentioning it and I wondered what it was. Then I saw there were threads with hundreds of responses and thought, “hey, this isn’t actually dead, maybe it could be fun”
Tolerance of evil is AuthLeft