That's easy for you to say.
What if someone chooses a word, creates dozens of accounts featuring that word, and then uses all of those accounts to flood the threads with spam (using that word in most of his comments) just to drown out any/all discussion?
In that scenario you can either automod that word and put a stop to it, or you can let your forum be flooded with spam.
Now, I'd actually forgotten about this until I saw this thread and was reminded of why that word was automodded.
If you'd just asked politely via PM what was going on with that word being censored, I could have just quietly removed it from the automod.
But instead, you had to be a hero and make a big stink about it which probably caught that person's attention, so that word's going to have to stay on the automod list now because if I take it down now, he'll go right back to doing what he was doing before so he can claim the "win".
Well done. Your choosing to be a dick about this and make it a "fuck the mods!" issue is netting the exact opposite outcome you were hoping for, where being civil would gotten you what you wanted. I hope you'll reflect on that.
You guys think you want a total absence of moderation, but that's because you've never been on the other side, and you don't know the realties of moderating a forum. If I gave you what you wanted and just ended moderation altogether, the forum would be completely unusable within 24 hours.
Then deal with the accounts spamming, don't automod words, once you do that, the same troublemaker can just choose to spam any word at all everywhere and then you'd be forced to automod that.
This isn't about nasty words, it is about maintaining a platform in which real discussion is feasible. Spamming cuss words is free speech, but it is also unproductive speech. The issue is not repression but substance.
If you all you have to say is empty trolling garbage, then why even say anything at all? Take a look at what happened to Voat.
Once again, anyone can go into your history and see where a comment has been removed by a mod. There will be a deleted in place of the comment. The only comment you've ever had removed was this a month ago.
Well, you've already been proven a liar about the comment you falsely claim I removed (because you didn't realize people can see in your history that never happened), so why would it be a stretch to think you're also running alts?
You've been caught. If I'd removed a comment you posted, there would be a deleted there in your comment history. Stop tying to lie your way out of your lie.
That's easy for you to say. What if someone chooses a word, creates dozens of accounts featuring that word, and then uses all of those accounts to flood the threads with spam (using that word in most of his comments) just to drown out any/all discussion?
Because that's exactly what happened.
In that scenario you can either automod that word and put a stop to it, or you can let your forum be flooded with spam.
Now, I'd actually forgotten about this until I saw this thread and was reminded of why that word was automodded. If you'd just asked politely via PM what was going on with that word being censored, I could have just quietly removed it from the automod.
But instead, you had to be a hero and make a big stink about it which probably caught that person's attention, so that word's going to have to stay on the automod list now because if I take it down now, he'll go right back to doing what he was doing before so he can claim the "win".
Well done. Your choosing to be a dick about this and make it a "fuck the mods!" issue is netting the exact opposite outcome you were hoping for, where being civil would gotten you what you wanted. I hope you'll reflect on that.
You guys think you want a total absence of moderation, but that's because you've never been on the other side, and you don't know the realties of moderating a forum. If I gave you what you wanted and just ended moderation altogether, the forum would be completely unusable within 24 hours.
Ham-and-Cheese-Pilled.
Then deal with the accounts spamming, don't automod words, once you do that, the same troublemaker can just choose to spam any word at all everywhere and then you'd be forced to automod that.
Holy fuck. This place is fucking garbage. Worse than Reddit.
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What? No more free speech here? Peace
This isn't about nasty words, it is about maintaining a platform in which real discussion is feasible. Spamming cuss words is free speech, but it is also unproductive speech. The issue is not repression but substance.
If you all you have to say is empty trolling garbage, then why even say anything at all? Take a look at what happened to Voat.
"Voat has shutdown. Voat was sacrificed on December 25th, 2020 at 12 noon PST"
I think that was a funding issue. But before that for the last few years it descended into a circle jerk of (((jews evil)))
Bans the word fa**ot, still allows extremists to encourage acts of terrorism.
What a shithole
Shut up Mulbeta
I've barely been posting here for a couple of weeks and I am already into it with a mod over the use of words.
Look at the meltdown in this thread. I am being accusing of lying, being caught, and having an alt.
https://communities.win/c/OmegaCanada/p/11Rh1YX3Sd/mfw-woody-is-no-longer-here-to-s/
lol 'special needs homosexual'
We literally came here because of reddit censorship.
If we ended moderation altogether, the forum would become unusable.
That word in particular is moderated for a reason that provides a perfect example of what I mean: https://i.imgur.com/f7sE39A.png
What hill? Censorship? I think that’s a good hill......
Arbitrary? You don't know why that word was put on the automod list to begin with. https://i.imgur.com/f7sE39A.png
Once again, anyone can go into your history and see where a comment has been removed by a mod. There will be a deleted in place of the comment. The only comment you've ever had removed was this a month ago.
Why are you lying about this?
LOL forget to switch alts?
Well, you've already been proven a liar about the comment you falsely claim I removed (because you didn't realize people can see in your history that never happened), so why would it be a stretch to think you're also running alts?
You've been caught. If I'd removed a comment you posted, there would be a deleted there in your comment history. Stop tying to lie your way out of your lie.