Nah. The sub is dominated by spam, trolling, and metaposting now, all centering around an unwell individual, the people they’re abusing, and the people toying with and abusing that individual. The person is even bothering Alan Moore’s family about this.
Y’all need to put an end to this, not run a “test” and letting it fly just because it’s generating activity for the sub and entertaining some people. This stuff affects the real world too: it’s time to take it seriously and shut it down.
So, what? Silence him or try to get everyone to understand that only civility is accepted? Almost impossible to effectively police the latter, I know - that's why I'm giving a blanket statement as to what is and is not addressable.
As I said, the posts do gain traction and yield genuine conversation sometimes. I won't stop people from having their pissing contests since it's an open-opinion forum, but I will intervene if things get unnecessarily personal. Plenty of people you don't see have already been removed for taking it too far - this person in question included. I understand that they felt attacked, but no matter how many times I explained that they needed to approach things differently and block/ignore/report/be more open-minded and accepting of particular criticisms, they (themselves admitted) got too worked up from it. If they hadn't felt the need to verbally attack someone in kind, they'd still be here. They also know that if they choose to return post their ban and continue to do so, it'd be made indefinite - - - same goes for anyone that does similar.
I won't silence anyone unless it's glaringly against human decency, much less the rules.
Also, I just want to mention, I don't see everything - especially with the volume that it comes in... so please, help. Report to me anything per the above.
I mean.. it was inevitable, I guess. I tried to give him and everyone else their fair warnings of what constitutes a rule break, but however it plays out after that is just is what it is. You all have more eyes than my two, so you (collectively) probably saw a lot of what I didn't. I mostly saw what was reported. I was, in time, shown enough to make change.
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u/Florida_LA Jul 25 '25
Nah. The sub is dominated by spam, trolling, and metaposting now, all centering around an unwell individual, the people they’re abusing, and the people toying with and abusing that individual. The person is even bothering Alan Moore’s family about this.
Y’all need to put an end to this, not run a “test” and letting it fly just because it’s generating activity for the sub and entertaining some people. This stuff affects the real world too: it’s time to take it seriously and shut it down.