OK peeps, I am seeing a lot of flamewars lately which go off-topic of this comm. I am also getting dozens of reports about people reporting each other for “rudeness” or “trolling”. I don’t want this comm to start becoming a drama haven, so I want to try and prevent people getting worked up like this.
What do you think about me starting to deploy strategic 1-day bans for people who I notice are getting into flamewars? If not, what else do you suggest to help people remain civil?
Don’t just upvote/downvote. I won’t take these into account, I want actual comments about this to better make a decision.
Being mean to someone else because of what they said is fine, unless someone threatens someone or is mean because they’re discriminating
I generally allows some of level of hostility, but when it gets to the point of the just trolling and insults I think it’s time to pause
If its just insults, let the community deal with it with downvotes. No need to get ban happy for something like this.
I disagree. Downvotes don’t have any effect and I don’t follow a complete hands off approach
Downvotes affect the algorithm of comments that are displayed. They do have an effect.
I’m not saying to be hands off. Definitely you should ban accounts who post misinformation or racism, for example. But bans for “being mean” is an overstep of your privileges.
My privileges are what I say they are. There’s no natural law on how to run a comm. 😅
It kind of reads like you posted this as a question then accepted no feedback and pushed back on anyone with a different view. Not saying that’s what’s actually happening, it’s only been a few hours, but you’ve responded exclusively negatively in these comments.
like this?
The fact is that I haven’t responded to most comments because they make good points. There’s nothing to argue against good points. I’m not going to go around saying “good point” to everyone