I was a lurker on the subreddit and discord, and I've been watching the modlogs, and it looks like you've been banning people based on their usernames when they make one post, if they were banned in the discord? What's the deal with that? were they chuds?
A few of the people banned from the discord basically cooked up this huge conspiracy about some of the mods, and as soon as this place opened up started spamming their conspiracy theory in every thread under 100 different usernames. So, a few kooks took the blank slate and immediately smeared shit all over it, lol.
But shouldn't the mods at least wait to ban them until they post something related to that conspiracy theory? like, this feels a little reddity, with the guilt by association and banning for upvotes. I dont know. Maybe i'm just not a fan of bans as a whole, it never realy felt like the chapo way to me
Due to the way that posts are removed after banning the logs can show that they were just banned rather than showing the removed posts they were banned for as well. You can click the usernames and see they have been posting if you want.
I have been. I'm slightly less sympathetic, but there were still quite a few that didn't seem to post anything bad but were still banned for either "wrecker shit" or "trolling" or "drama" or something on that line, and I think that that's a little bit sus
although I can't actually see the context on a lot of these, because there doesn't seem to be any way to go to a post a comment aws posted on
That could be improved I guess. It's a fine line between leaving content up and removing that content.
going to be honest, I get what you're saying, but that's a little bit of an oxymoron
That's the issue though right? Should content that is removed for being a liability still be accessible? I think ultimately it's better to err on the side of things being a little less open than leaving things up.
People didn't leave the conspiratorial drama behind. They immediately started spamming the site, posting dozens of comments per minute, creating dozens of burner accounts, posting in dozens of unrelated threads, then singling out whichever moderator had to clean up their mess and initiating witch hunts against them.
They truly are wreckers. The only thing they want is scalps. They are harassing the people who are putting in the most work to make this platform possible and making everyone's job more difficult - from the admins to the developers to the mods. There is nothing we can do that will satisfy them.
