Jaxyon posted:

We're talking about meeting zero-effort agro shitposts with increasingly harsh punishment but why don't we practice what we preach and put together a restorative justice model?

If you shitpost like that, you are warned, and if you continue, you have to put together a MLA formatted research paper either for or against your position(moderator/IK call on which side you take).

Discendo Vox posted:

It becomes less work over time as the shitheads actually start getting perma'd or forumbanned. The "indirect" benefit of removing bad posters creates a space where good posting can actually happen. Norms shift, assholes leave and don't come back, and very slowly nature is healing new people enter the space and flourish under the new standards.

UCS Hellmaker posted:

Its a forums ban from someone that earned it for toxic shitposting for years, that goes into threads to be an rear end in a top hat and try and own his forum enemies. Literally its one of the worst posters we have that does not add anything to a discussion, and instead goes into a thread and posts one liners to cause derails and attack others. It would be better to find another hill to fight on because there are numerous examples from the last week that could have earned the same punishment from said poster

Doctor Butts posted:

ronya posted:

There's no amount of that is going to advance any debate in a conflict between an essentially liberal outlook and an essentially radical one. Very definitely not snarky one-liners, nor derisive BOO! GET OFF THE STAGE! shitposting-as-praxis.

But my hot take is that trying to maintain debate space for such engagement is pointless: even good-faith engagement actively makes threads worse, by substituting a subtopic that could be interesting for some, for a retread topic that is a grinding tedium for all involved. So there's no point generating more work for mods by requiring that they mediate a shared arena with contentious, amorphous rules of engagement (that are regularly bitterly and publicly disputed by a loud tribe of posters, no less). It is actually fine to spin off hugboxes where participants are expected to accept, as Crumbskull says, some modicum of shared values. Just keep adding more such spaces until the screaming stops.

Again - there's always C-SPAM for no-holds-barred jeering and zero-good-faith yelling matches

Athanatos posted:

This thread was entirely on me. I got so many "Hey can you review this probe I got?" or I'd see something queued that I had no idea why and have to ask. I made this to get a better feel of D&D and what goes on here. What issues it has and how I can help.


I think it's gone pretty well. I'm going to close it and call it a thread pretty soon. If anyone has any last thoughts about D&D or questions for me, let me know.