I'm seeing some comments from people who are concerned that this event has negatively affected our reputation. For me at least, it's done quite the opposite.
I've been a part of other online communities that have also had predators called out, and those were an absolute garbage fire. Everything from instamt bans to hate speech to just being completely ignored. At no point in time did any of the people conducting the investigations tell the rest of the community what steps were being taken. It wasn't clear to anyone what was valid, who to trust, and whether the mods even knew what standards they had.
Our mods here handled this with the thoughtfulness, introspection, and respect that reaffirms my faith in them. The comments by the rest of the community were (like 85%) constructive and focused, and I found them providing support for the whole process, mods and accuser alike.
Situations like this will always be a stress test. I feel a lot better now, having seen what our community's response is, that we're able to appropriately respond to both unverifiable as well as to true sexual predator accusations on this site in the future.
Joke's on you wreckers, I trust my comrades even more now 🖕🖕:af-heart:
I'm seeing some comments from people who are concerned that this event has negatively affected our reputation. For me at least, it's done quite the opposite.
I've been a part of other online communities that have also had predators called out, and those were an absolute garbage fire. Everything from instamt bans to hate speech to just being completely ignored. At no point in time did any of the people conducting the investigations tell the rest of the community what steps were being taken. It wasn't clear to anyone what was valid, who to trust, and whether the mods even knew what standards they had.
Our mods here handled this with the thoughtfulness, introspection, and respect that reaffirms my faith in them. The comments by the rest of the community were (like 85%) constructive and focused, and I found them providing support for the whole process, mods and accuser alike.
Situations like this will always be a stress test. I feel a lot better now, having seen what our community's response is, that we're able to appropriately respond to both unverifiable as well as to true sexual predator accusations on this site in the future.
Joke's on you wreckers, I trust my comrades even more now 🖕🖕:af-heart:
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