This is the reason why internet users don't respect moderators, they believe themselves to be the arbiters of truth when in reality they are glorified janitors whos main job is to clean up cp and goatse images. No man or committee should have the power to influence an entire site without the consent of the userbase, that's how social movements die on the internet. Mods try to control something they have no right to control, I'm not saying they should act with neutrality but by god, they are not the leaders.
On internet communities that has never been the case though. Every owner of a forum was previously a community marshall, creating the kind of community they want, and marshalling that community via leadership towards the kind of behaviour and attitudes that they want.
In consolidating all those forums into one place where people now operate many of them in collective groups, the same thing exists but is just larger.
It's also no different here on hexbear. The admins and mods are a leadership group who control and marshal the community towards the intended goal.
This is the reason why internet users don't respect moderators, they believe themselves to be the arbiters of truth when in reality they are glorified janitors whos main job is to clean up cp and goatse images. No man or committee should have the power to influence an entire site without the consent of the userbase, that's how social movements die on the internet. Mods try to control something they have no right to control, I'm not saying they should act with neutrality but by god, they are not the leaders.
On internet communities that has never been the case though. Every owner of a forum was previously a community marshall, creating the kind of community they want, and marshalling that community via leadership towards the kind of behaviour and attitudes that they want.
In consolidating all those forums into one place where people now operate many of them in collective groups, the same thing exists but is just larger.
It's also no different here on hexbear. The admins and mods are a leadership group who control and marshal the community towards the intended goal.
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