OK peeps, I am seeing a lot of flamewars lately which go off-topic of this comm. I am also getting dozens of reports about people reporting each other for “rudeness” or “trolling”. I don’t want this comm to start becoming a drama haven, so I want to try and prevent people getting worked up like this.

What do you think about me starting to deploy strategic 1-day bans for people who I notice are getting into flamewars? If not, what else do you suggest to help people remain civil?

Don’t just upvote/downvote. I won’t take these into account, I want actual comments about this to better make a decision.

  • oce 🐆
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    2 days ago

    Didn’t know about this community, just read the description to understand its title, and I immediately thought that it was going to be a trolling mess. So my first thinking is that you created a banquet for trolls, and now you’re dealing with the consequences. Do you have the magic mental power to deal with this?
    If yes, then I would make it very clear from the beginning in the rules that uncivil discussion will be moderated, that continuous incivility will lead to a 1-day ban and that attempts to bypass the temporary ban will lead to a permanent ban.
    Get ready for motivated trolls spending days creating new accounts to harass your authority, or you, after they have been banned.

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      We don’t have a huge troll problem tbh. Mostly people taking things too personally and seriously

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        18 hours ago

        you know, if i wasnt such a philosophically minded bastard i might be inclined to take this personally. fortunately,

        • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org
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          16 hours ago

          It is, just curious why today, this community has been active for a while, and got pretty popular a few months ago with the first vegan drama

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            9 hours ago

            I guess this post went higher in my feed that the others at my checking time.