please don't take it personally, this wasn't really directed at you, but at the community and especially at the admin team.
i think expanding the admin team would do a whole lot of good, as it seems like the admins we do have seem stressed and burnt out. at the same time i get that it's hard to vet new people.
another good example of how admins alienate people is the fact that they've made it so people can't make posts about the change outside of the pinned thread, but then they go ahead and allow posts that implicitly or explicitly supports them, such as but no limited to: this post, 1, 2, 3
shit likes this makes it pretty clear why people get upset and/or do stupid shit
I made a post about my grievances. Got a lock and an LMAO. Commented on a post in User Union with the changes I'd like to see to moderation. Deleted, with the reason "no".
Meanwhile, "power to the posters" and "limitless criticisms of power" are still the site's motos.
yeah idk, man. it does feel wrong for a socialist forum to have no oversight on admins and an admin team which disdains its users and will from time to time refuse to engage with criticism.
i'm pleasently surprised you haven't been banned. thank you for voicing your criticism o7
I also had a post removed, and the mod log had a link to the discussion thread comment saying "all name change posts must be here:", but the post had already been locked lol
initially i thought restricting posting was a good idea, as it would contain the struggle session, not letting it interfere with the rest of the site. they did it but posting has slowed down considerably and you still have threads making it through the filter and comments about it in the megathread.
maybe restricting posts is still a good thing because it makes public opinion clearer? before you'd have threads with different opinions that were both highly upvoted and with comments in agreement, now people have to duke it out in the marketplace of ideas™ that is the announcement megathread.
please don't take it personally, this wasn't really directed at you, but at the community and especially at the admin team.
i think expanding the admin team would do a whole lot of good, as it seems like the admins we do have seem stressed and burnt out. at the same time i get that it's hard to vet new people.
another good example of how admins alienate people is the fact that they've made it so people can't make posts about the change outside of the pinned thread, but then they go ahead and allow posts that implicitly or explicitly supports them, such as but no limited to: this post, 1, 2, 3
shit likes this makes it pretty clear why people get upset and/or do stupid shit
I made a post about my grievances. Got a lock and an LMAO. Commented on a post in User Union with the changes I'd like to see to moderation. Deleted, with the reason "no".
Meanwhile, "power to the posters" and "limitless criticisms of power" are still the site's motos.
yeah idk, man. it does feel wrong for a socialist forum to have no oversight on admins and an admin team which disdains its users and will from time to time refuse to engage with criticism.
i'm pleasently surprised you haven't been banned. thank you for voicing your criticism o7
You're just the wrong poster
"Anyone who agrees with the leadership unconditionally has the right to criticize them"
I also had a post removed, and the mod log had a link to the discussion thread comment saying "all name change posts must be here:", but the post had already been locked lol
like who cares if people post, seriously
initially i thought restricting posting was a good idea, as it would contain the struggle session, not letting it interfere with the rest of the site. they did it but posting has slowed down considerably and you still have threads making it through the filter and comments about it in the megathread.
maybe restricting posts is still a good thing because it makes public opinion clearer? before you'd have threads with different opinions that were both highly upvoted and with comments in agreement, now people have to duke it out in the marketplace of ideas™ that is the announcement megathread.
I mean it can be useful but not if the thread itself is also locked