Oh wow they were a prolific poster. Can't say I liked all they posted but this is going to be felt in terms of content. Hopefully other people step up to increase our posting. News communities would be a great start. I do what I can personally.
the bigger issue imo is people leaving. There's always an active contigent but it gets replaced over time. Though I say that in a thread with 2 of our oldest users lol.
I hope this means content quality goes up. As forums get larger, which we do want to occur for our community, it seems they are prone to the effects of entropy and more irrelevant posts start to muddy the entire instance. I'm probably at fault for posting some things here that aren't very relevant to ML, thus I try to post on hexbear more for less relevant stuff and limit my posts to higher quality and relevant topics here. Nevertheless, I am still working on improving this as sometimes I'm not sure if a post fits this community, but sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised when I get more reactions than my hexbear crosspost.
They were banned nearly a month ago, and I've barely noticed a difference so I don't think there's a lot to worry about.
IMO removal of this sort of user just makes the instance healthier, because people are more likely to stick around when they're not subjected to a user's reactionary nonsense.
Oh wow they were a prolific poster. Can't say I liked all they posted but this is going to be felt in terms of content. Hopefully other people step up to increase our posting. News communities would be a great start. I do what I can personally.
We can always get others to join, whether it's people from others onlins forums or acquainted irl communists.
the bigger issue imo is people leaving. There's always an active contigent but it gets replaced over time. Though I say that in a thread with 2 of our oldest users lol.
tbf the oldest users in question are admins so
I hope this means content quality goes up. As forums get larger, which we do want to occur for our community, it seems they are prone to the effects of entropy and more irrelevant posts start to muddy the entire instance. I'm probably at fault for posting some things here that aren't very relevant to ML, thus I try to post on hexbear more for less relevant stuff and limit my posts to higher quality and relevant topics here. Nevertheless, I am still working on improving this as sometimes I'm not sure if a post fits this community, but sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised when I get more reactions than my hexbear crosspost.
They were banned nearly a month ago, and I've barely noticed a difference so I don't think there's a lot to worry about.
IMO removal of this sort of user just makes the instance healthier, because people are more likely to stick around when they're not subjected to a user's reactionary nonsense.