Concerns community as of late

[xwingyoda]

If this site had FBTBs mods then I would have been banned about 10 times

[JINZONINGEN73]

When you have one person talking to another person, you can crack fart jokes, talk super-vulgar, discuss differing views on "serious" issues...

Having a site you can add more people... and you can keep doing that for awhile, but inevitably, the ability to read and effectively communicate with each person individually will be spread too thin and SOMEONE'S going to be offended.

As your site grows and more people are added, the freedom of what you can say slowly erodes, point by point.

When it seems there's no "looseness" left, then staff has to ask themselves questions on what they must do with their site, for it is no longer the same site.

Do they go all Nazi and be super-strict, going so far as to trample people with different ways of thinking, or do they just let the place be a fun, yet extremely volatile haven of chaos?

But those AREN'T the only 2 options. The third option involves alot of work, so people tend to forget it's available to them. They thought getting a site and programming a forum was all they had to do... now they have to think.

Option 3 seems to be what this site's currently doing.

Asshat sees forum. Asshat spams forum. Admins isolate asshat and he screws up after a few chances, finally ending in talkin' nasty which gets him banned. No loss.

There'll be other asshats, don't think there won't be.

Asshats will appear in a more consistently frequent manner. It'll happen.

The only 2 things that will change is the amount of staff being increased to remain handling people as individuals, and not just member #8,967,253.

The other thing that can change, as was stated already, is how the members deal with the next asshat.

-Ignore them as best you can.

-No need to bring up posts following an asshat's post in regards to them breaking policy. The mods will see them, not to worry.

-If someone does something particularly nasty and or time-sensitive, click "report this post". It'll be taken care of as soon as possible.

Dang... I talk too much. :oD

I've only been here since the end of October, but even our recent lil' brat attack seemed out of place from what I thought this site was.

But I also noticed that all of your reactions were taken aback too... you guys don't seem used to brats yet.

That's good though. It means the staff can get policies and the members can get attitudes in place before the inevitable increases in such things even begin.

In short, not every under 13-er is an asshat... just enough are. Some will make you want to rip your hair out and make a voodoo doll of them, while others will be more invaluable than even some veteran members.

Meh... I'm talkin' like armageddon is about to happen. This place will be kicking azz for years to come.

(OMG, I pulled a censor bypass! Hahahaha! If I can still do that, then the site's not too anal yet! Do your worst!) :D