AFAIK this has been done before. With cuse it got messy, but that was a weird situation.
From the TOS, we state:
You agree to be responsible for all action taken using your account, whether authorized by you or not, until you either close your account or notify the company that your account has been compromised. You agree to notify the company immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised. You agree to select a secure password for your account, and keep it secret.
Now people can lawyer this up all they want but my interpretation of the TOS is that the website does not own user’s content or their accounts. We are holding users liable for their own content. If someone wants to leave the site permanently, why should they continue to have this liability if they don’t want it? What if they get hacked and someone starts posting child porn all over the place? If I was leaving the site I would want my account banned/closed/deleted as well. And, he is always welcome to come back.
He didn’t want a big deal made of this, so don’t make a big deal of it, in my opinion.
Things blow up on slow news days/weeks. And lots of posters are completely oblivious to all this. It’s trivially easy to mute threads and just talk about what you’re interested in.
Whatever you were talking about, it sure wasn’t the c-word anymore. If you want to do a memoriam for posters who aren’t posting anymore, that’s fine too.
This is obviously untrue. The drama starts in other threads and then gets moved to drama threads so that it doesn’t ruin the main threads immediately… but the main threads have significant squabbles break out and get turned into drama threads pretty regularly or we wouldn’t have drama threads.
The drama threads themselves are tumors literally displacing the creation of good content here. There’s nothing redeeming about them and we never should have had a single one.
Also what a huge joke posting this seriously when churchill is still posting in the COVID thread and baiting people whose opinions I actually care about (because they’ve kept me miles ahead of the curve through a global pandemic, let’s not trivialize it) into wasting a ton of time dealing with whatever bullshit he’s dug out of the interweb muck that morning.
I’ve got him on ignore. Should I ignore CaffeineNeeded because he doesn’t have churchill on ignore? Should I ignore Danspartan?
This is a textbook tragedy of the commons situation and the way those get solved is that the people throwing trash in the commons get punished for it.
As a forum, we generally want Democrats to invoke the nuclear option and take hard lines. Should we be surprised if posters do the same thing with regards to their relationship with this forum?
My belief is that you can’t have a politics forum without the drama unless it is heavily moderated. My personal preference is to have lighter moderation and accept some level of drama, which might sound weird coming from a self-described statist. (But maybe I like drama?)
I’m not sure how you’re still missing the point. When I’m scrolling down I’m scrolling past what would have been other content created by the same people. It would have been good but instead it’s unreadable bullshit I have to scroll past… because if I read it I’m going to be getting trolled by proxy.
I have no idea how you’ve spent this much time in the internet over the last few decades without understanding that trolling on the internet is a gas that will expand to fill the size of the available container. I think there shouldn’t be an available container because it’s poison for a community.
It would be really great if you stopped pretending like you had any idea what you were talking about honestly. This communities problems are your ideological children. I’m sorry it didn’t work out the way you hoped. People aren’t the way you think they are.
It seems to me he began to feel that certain moderation decisions were being made capriciously and/or maliciously and that the concerns he had expressed about that were not going to be addressed.
You had your chance to be the Stalin we needed but sabotaged yourself. The troll in me hopes you get the opportunity to do it and see what the results are.