Yeah I know that drama exists everywhere, but I've been on multiple forums where it just doesn't crop up nearly so much. All I was saying was that you go on blindness communities like this one, and every few months, if not more often at times, something is going down and more often than not it's just a repeat or continuation of something that we've seen before. Not too long ago on Anyaudio, there was shit going on there too. On Twitter you can see it, though I choose not to follow anyone who associates with it. And need I start on the world of online games? It's like you have to keep up with the backstory of people to know if something they post is drama waiting to happen, or actually worth doing. I may be the odd one out but I don't find entertainment in that. I have enough trouble understanding the physical world a lot of the time. Lol
In other forums I'm on, this doesn't seem to happen. Sure you get disagreements, sure you have to get accustomed to people and figure out if they're trying to start trouble or not, but nothing on this scale so far as I've seen. I know there are reasons for it, (bigger moderation staff, different vibes and different people, maybe not as much traffic at times etc.) but regardless I'm more comfortable there. I, at least, don't see things devolve into a "Trump or anyone else is an ***". And in the limited experience I've had, nothing really does devolve quite like stuff here does. Not saying there aren't places to find that kind of stuff in the so-called mainstream world, but I just haven't found it yet because there's so much more to explore I guess.
kool_turk wrote:I'm no moderator, nor do I have experience moderating online communities, but if I did, I probably wouldn't put up with it.
I would either tell them to toughen up, go somewhere else, or be triggar happy with the banning feature.
Which to me is just sad... but hey, maybe such tactics need to be used when it gets bad. It hasn't really gotten bad in this thread but look at the amount of closed threads where it has been. Ah well, there's no way to win in this.
I know I'm overreacting, that I should just ignore this stuff like any decent person, that I am not helping the situation. I know I should've kept my nose out of this thread, but I couldn't resist this time. Now that I've said everything I needed to say, I will do just what I said and ignore. Please don't take anything I've said personally, it was not targeted at anyone specific.
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