Interesting article: [Wayback/Archive] Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News. with this important quote: The complex…
It’s just awful moderation. There is a certain kind of moderator who feels that they need to take action all the time to justify their title, even when the best course of action is to do nothing.
You need to be a calm steady person to do nothing and feel fine with it.
Yup, pretty much. It’s that dumb enforcement of the rules for the sake of the rules, instead of what they were made for: to ensure the community thrives. In the meantime they turn a blind eye to behaviour that technically doesn’t violate rules, but harms the community — it’s Charlie mini-modding, Ed showing disdain with “lol” and “lmao”, Fran adding noise with that “ackshyually” without addressing the matter at hand…
In Stack Overflow, large subreddits, and some old-fashioned BBC forums all this shit compounds, until the only users “surviving” there sound like pieces of shit.
It’s just awful moderation. There is a certain kind of moderator who feels that they need to take action all the time to justify their title, even when the best course of action is to do nothing.
You need to be a calm steady person to do nothing and feel fine with it.
Yup, pretty much. It’s that dumb enforcement of the rules for the sake of the rules, instead of what they were made for: to ensure the community thrives. In the meantime they turn a blind eye to behaviour that technically doesn’t violate rules, but harms the community — it’s Charlie mini-modding, Ed showing disdain with “lol” and “lmao”, Fran adding noise with that “ackshyually” without addressing the matter at hand…
In Stack Overflow, large subreddits, and some old-fashioned BBC forums all this shit compounds, until the only users “surviving” there sound like pieces of shit.