Steven Universe Fandom Problem
Nov. 25th, 2024 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Seems like one of the takeaways from Cohost is that if you promise to be Not Like The Other Social Media, you will develop a userbase who relentlessly scrutinizes your moderation decisions and hates you for them, even if they acknowledge your site is less of a cesspool than most other sites. If literally anything bad happens on a site of tens of thousands of users, you better believe it's going in a dossier of Incidents, with "they took a couple days to ban this guy" attached as commentary. People will be making Nazi bar comparisons too, because why not.
It's not that the userbase of, again, tens of thousands people (afaict) are getting modded by a team with fewer members than your average hobby forum or midsize Discord, on top of their various administrative responsibilities. No, the mods just don't care about keeping you safe.
I call this the "Steven Universe fandom problem".
It's not that the userbase of, again, tens of thousands people (afaict) are getting modded by a team with fewer members than your average hobby forum or midsize Discord, on top of their various administrative responsibilities. No, the mods just don't care about keeping you safe.
I call this the "Steven Universe fandom problem".