anyone who has tried to moderate an online community of any scale can relate to this, especially when looking at the downfall of traditional social media sites like facebook and twitter.

in the early days here moderating was kind of a nightmare like on those sites because we’d semi-frequently get spammed by neo-nazis and trolls who posted all sorts of heinous stuff. we’d also get a ton of spam. (it’s part of why we don’t have open registrations.) just so much work for dubious payoff–luckily it’s worked out in the end here