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<blockquote data-quote="thormagni" data-source="post: 3887058" data-attributes="member: 13637"><p>Do you ever get the feeling that people are just... I don't know. Strange? Until last weekend, we had a forum on the Web site. We moderated it though, so we didn't let people get too out of hand. Just tried to keep it at a nice friendly level. No insults. No libel. Everyone being civil to each other. yahdda yahdda...</p><p></p><p>In 9 months, we had 26,000 posts and were spending 20+ hours a week of staff time keeping this stupid thing running. It was a lot of work. And there were 200+ users but only about 35 of them were regular posters. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, I found out a few weeks ago that a group of disgruntled former (and current) posters had gone off to form another forum. I joined, looked around and saw that most of them, if not all, started their first posts talking about what a terrible job I was doing on our forum. How unfair I was, how authoritarian I was, how much of a liar I was, etc. etc. Yet, most of them, continued to post on OUR forum and were more or less nice to me to my face.</p><p></p><p>So, we closed our forum this weekend to spend staff time more wisely, thank Pelor and Iuz (obligatory D&D reference) and I directed anyone I could find on how to reach their board, so they had a place to go. Their membership has jumped dramatically but these people are all really, really angry. Insulting, nasty, ugly comments are just going left and right and they are just tearing into each other. And of course, there are more less-than-kind things being said about me. </p><p></p><p>I never really believed in moderating forums before this. And I was opposed to moderating ours when we started. But it is like the Lord of the Flies over there right now. And now I am realizing that it was only our policing efforts, that so many of them hated, which kept the thing relatively friendly on our site. And if they hated me and our site so much, why did they spend so much time there?</p><p></p><p>So I am perplexed. On the one hand, I want to say "These are a bunch of hateful idiots and why do I care anyway since they didn't know me?" yet on the other hand I am thinking "Why do they hate ME so much? What did I do except force them to play nice?"</p><p></p><p>The whole thing just puzzles me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thormagni, post: 3887058, member: 13637"] Do you ever get the feeling that people are just... I don't know. Strange? Until last weekend, we had a forum on the Web site. We moderated it though, so we didn't let people get too out of hand. Just tried to keep it at a nice friendly level. No insults. No libel. Everyone being civil to each other. yahdda yahdda... In 9 months, we had 26,000 posts and were spending 20+ hours a week of staff time keeping this stupid thing running. It was a lot of work. And there were 200+ users but only about 35 of them were regular posters. Meanwhile, I found out a few weeks ago that a group of disgruntled former (and current) posters had gone off to form another forum. I joined, looked around and saw that most of them, if not all, started their first posts talking about what a terrible job I was doing on our forum. How unfair I was, how authoritarian I was, how much of a liar I was, etc. etc. Yet, most of them, continued to post on OUR forum and were more or less nice to me to my face. So, we closed our forum this weekend to spend staff time more wisely, thank Pelor and Iuz (obligatory D&D reference) and I directed anyone I could find on how to reach their board, so they had a place to go. Their membership has jumped dramatically but these people are all really, really angry. Insulting, nasty, ugly comments are just going left and right and they are just tearing into each other. And of course, there are more less-than-kind things being said about me. I never really believed in moderating forums before this. And I was opposed to moderating ours when we started. But it is like the Lord of the Flies over there right now. And now I am realizing that it was only our policing efforts, that so many of them hated, which kept the thing relatively friendly on our site. And if they hated me and our site so much, why did they spend so much time there? So I am perplexed. On the one hand, I want to say "These are a bunch of hateful idiots and why do I care anyway since they didn't know me?" yet on the other hand I am thinking "Why do they hate ME so much? What did I do except force them to play nice?" The whole thing just puzzles me. [/QUOTE]
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