Gandoor wrote:Rosartemis wrote:This is just putting it lightly; moderation issues have always involved one sub-community at a time, but they occur so frequently that they encompass the entire site, or at least the context of the argument thereof. The recent situation with Wallenburg is just the latest example, stemming from a long string of issues people had with how site staff handled certain things. In this case, the problem is a lack of transparency on moderation actions by staff and overall abusive and harmful behavior (e.g., promising consequences if Wallenburg revealed the reason for his removal). It's not just the issue of the General Assembly or the WA altogether; rather, the GA was just the recipient of the latest drama concerning moderator incompetence.
Looking farther back, towards the Kraven situation, in which (if memory serves) over a decade of roleplay and thousands of posts were erased without prior warning from moderation, combined with certain members of staff's attitude towards concerned members of the International Incidents community, you would notice a consistent pattern of "why" a certain drama is happening, and it more or less involves the moderation of this site.
Much further back, and still a topic that reemerges from time to time, is... Mm... I'll avoid discussing this in much detail, as I don't want to catch a mod's hand for even talking about it, but the staff refusing to ban a genuinely dangerous and horrible person who endangers many users of this site, despite the person being banned from practically everywhere off-site (and if anyone here harbors him outside it, know that I hate you). The modly stance on the issue is "They will not be DOSed because off-site evidence is iffy," while historically, they have acted purely off of off-site evidence before (see Brunhilde).
While it does not affect the rest of the site, moderation issues have historically had massive implications on the site itself, such as lack of transparency and messy enforcement of the rules (like the Malicious Content policy with Kraven). To say it's completely ineffectual (and in this case irrelevant) is part of the reason why issues like this are so prevalent. And no, no one has claimed that users will leave the site in droves, neither has that happened during Kraven, and certainly not now with Wally.
damn i kinda...don't give a shit
i've been on this site for so damn long, i literally don't care about any site drama at all at this point. it's all just like...who the hell cares. i'm in my late 20s, i just wanna worldbuild, see if there's any interesting threads to reply to in F&NI, occasionally reply to my storefronts (I WILL DO THAT EVENTUALLY), and like have fun in F7
i got better things to do with my time than care about what the mods are and are not doing or how they are and are not enforcing the rules.
Suit yourself, was just correcting you on a big portion of it, though.
