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Rather than block anyone or shut the site down they should have put all of the highschoolers in the Highschool section and then threatened to block them if they
by whatshisface 5y ago
Rather than block anyone or shut the site down they should have put all of the highschoolers in the Highschool section and then threatened to block them if they posted highschool stuff in the regular areas. Then nobody has to sit out except for people who are specifically motivated by the fact they've been told to not post fart jokes in the group theory folder.
- egypturnash 5y agoThis is a pattern that I have seen happen many times before and what you usually end up with is one area that is The Raging, Unmoderated Shit-Show. Which can end up sprawling outside of the site it lives on and become a base for organizing mass attacks elsewhere. Seem for example, whichever board was decreed the Unmoderated Shit-Show of Something Awful, or whichever one 4channers will tell you was the Unmoderated Shit-Show of that site while insisting the rest of it was perfectly fine and ethical. And since that is the sub-board that mostly interacts with the outside world, this is the one that will come to define your site in the eyes of everyone else: the place that bunch of assholes comes from. Once you get one of those, if you shut it down, it has a good chance of having someone invested enough in this splinter community to start hosting it somewhere. See for instance LJDrama: kicked off of LJ, it became its own site and kept on being a great place to go if you wanted to join in on piling on top of whoever was today's target.