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The author is slightly confusing cause with effect here. Not reading your forums makes them toxic since there is no effective moderation. Too many people still
by shalmanese 16y ago
The author is slightly confusing cause with effect here. Not reading your forums makes them toxic since there is no effective moderation. Too many people still have this misguided notion that the Internet should be some massive free speech zone where nothing can be censored except maybe spam. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Clear, effective moderation backed up by sensible but stringent policy can remove many of the pathologies that the article is talking about and transform a forum into a genuinely useful resource.
- JabavuAdams 16y agoGood point, but moderation takes time, as he pointed out at the beginning of the article. People don't become indie game developers so they can spend time moderating forums. Moderation can be an art, but it's also a chore. I.e. you can't moderate 10 times as hard / smart and be done with it. There will always be more. As a thinker / creator one has to be very careful about allowing recurring non-automatable, never-finished tasks into one's head.