RolStoppable said:
Not to mention that this site has been moderated as suggested by Xxain for at least a couple of years by now. It's not helping, it's not working. |
We banned a bunch of the trolls like Kerotan, QuickRick, etc. Got told we were being too ban-happy and killing the site, lately I would say that our moderation in the gaming forums has been far more relaxed, that wasn't in response to any criticism Tbh. I think it's just a case of the site dying and we're all low-energy, even the StaffChat in Discord is dead, it feels futile when you have an absent owner and progressively outdated site.
But anyway, I do believe there has been less active moderation in gaming discussion, the focus has been more politics, but speaking for myself, even when I'm arguing with an obvious dickhead in politics, I tend to let it carry on longer than I perhaps should, because I don't like banning people who are in direct debates with myself, Lol. We got rid of the bigots and politics tends to get heated anyway so there tends to be more relaxed moderation there too. I know I'm a Mod so this won't mean much but I firmly believe anyway that of all the potential issues with the declining activity of the site, moderation is way down the bottom as a possible cause.
I don't regret and stand by the vast majority of permabans that the Mod team I've been under have made. We tried to clean up the forums for better discussion even if it's smaller discussion, toxic activity is shit activity, like Curl says, it kills engagement in the long-term even if it may provide a boost in the short term, quite frankly if the choice was for the site to die or it to be full with trolls just to save the site, then it would be better if the site just died. Activity for the sake of activity, no matter the form it is in, sounds awful to me.
It's not really the Mod teams core responsibility to keep the site alive, it is linked to our work but the issues with the site far exceed our reach. It is the Mod teams responsibility to nurture a welcoming community that fosters quality discussion, quantity is the owners problem, there are dozens of things that could be done to encourage new sign ups beyond the Mod teams capabilities. Us banning bigots/trolls, etc. Is simply us doing our role.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 30 August 2025
