Online Community Moderation

Sounds like a gated internet community. Given the current state of online discourse, that’s understandable. But a little trolling, with the appropriate level of cutting wit, goes a long way towards skewering the bloviations of the thought leader class. It’s most unhackerlike to side with the mods.

I suppose the community makes the purpose of the community. And this sort of thing makes me worse, so I should seek something else, or modify my interaction with this community.It's an open forum and presumably those running it prefer this outcome.Fair enough.

Please do share your thoughts. It seems a shame to let nitpickers ruin the community for others.

I've noticed the same. The community is much less critical/negative there compared to here.

Maybe if your user community wasn't brimming with pedantic assholes we wouldn't have to.If this is your opinion of the community, why choose to participate in it?

Any concrete reason you call such a niche, but large community toxic?

One forum I'm on has a very strong community standard of "This place is like a local pub. If you show up mouthing off you'll be called on it by the regulars who may all look like they're shit talking each other, but who have mostly spent time together in real life, and who as a group have each other's backs against outsiders. If you keep it up you'll be asked to leave, possibly if needed by the managers (forum mods) who'll ban you for a short or extended time.&

On the contrary; communities need to be willing to ban people who drag the experience down for everyone even if they don't violate any explicit rules. I want to prefer lobste.rs with its public moderation log and better general oversight; the sole reason I'm here instead of there is the tiresome Michael O. Church comments on so many posts.

It's not the communities, a certain percentage of humans is unfortunately toxic and they are hijacking any undermoderated community.

This community is toxic and drives good but flawed people away.