yeah sure, right now it may be like that. Once the wreckers are dealt with and things settle down again it'll be fine. There's struggle sessions all the time here and we still grew to 12k members. And its not like other websites don't have similar problems, we just have our arguments over content policy in the open.
Yep, if I'm not mistaken one of the reasons behind making this place was having it act as a left pipeline. If the site was to be made invite-only growth would basically stop, so it's not something that can be done on a whim
First without a doubt, don't get me wrong. Heck, I would rather see the community lock up and reactionaries purged if things get too bad than straight up nuking the site.
What about invite only, but open signups on Fridays or something like that? Then new users can join if they browsed and liked it during the week AND it will make moderation efforts significantly easier. (Plus it would allow for the bulk of moderation to happen on the weekend when people have time to do that).
An account cooldown would be similar, but doesn't have the advantage of loading the heavy moderation work onto the weekend when people have more time.
Actually having user growth is important
Yeah, but chances are most people poking their heads in right now go "what the fuuuuuuuck is any of this" and close the window.
Constant, incessant, infighting doesn't really bode well for growth.
yeah sure, right now it may be like that. Once the wreckers are dealt with and things settle down again it'll be fine. There's struggle sessions all the time here and we still grew to 12k members. And its not like other websites don't have similar problems, we just have our arguments over content policy in the open.
Yep, if I'm not mistaken one of the reasons behind making this place was having it act as a left pipeline. If the site was to be made invite-only growth would basically stop, so it's not something that can be done on a whim
Safe space from reactionaries
Lib to Left pipeline
Choose one.
First without a doubt, don't get me wrong. Heck, I would rather see the community lock up and reactionaries purged if things get too bad than straight up nuking the site.
Tbh I don't think these two are exclusive. Why not have a limitation on daily posts or comments for new accounts, or something similar?
It's not much of a safe space if it has nobody in it. And servers cost money to operate.
What about invite only, but open signups on Fridays or something like that? Then new users can join if they browsed and liked it during the week AND it will make moderation efforts significantly easier. (Plus it would allow for the bulk of moderation to happen on the weekend when people have time to do that).
An account cooldown would be similar, but doesn't have the advantage of loading the heavy moderation work onto the weekend when people have more time.