cyrene savage @CyclopsCaveman@cyrenesavage.com

its really funny that people are asking to boycott in support of the ny times strike because why would you be reading that garbage anyway

i don't even understand. what's the point of inventing new administration bureaucracy for mastodon instances. you can't make money off this shit so do you have a fetish for red tape or something? like oh i can't get off on wielding administrative power unless it goes through three arbitrary subcommittees first

i have experience moderating and i can tell you right now that moderation that requires a committee meeting every time you do anything is to slow at best and completely ineffective at correcting behavior at worst

need to change the rules? well lets make sure the whole mod team agrees on the change first and, oh oops one person doesn't agree that a word isn't acceptable to say anymore and is bringing people over to their side in chat, and now you can't change the rule you wanted to change because the whole team has been arguing about this and continues to argue about it for days on end until everyone is angry and noöne has come to a conclusion together

has a user been just barely a problem but not breaking any rules? first you have to bring up the possibility of corrective action or talking to in the chat–if you make a move on your own you're violating the moderation covenant and will automatically be in the wrong regardless of the benefit of the action. so you bring up the problem user first to make sure correction is warranted and half the team agrees and the other half is like "they're not breaking any rules so we can't do anything" and then after days of discussion again nothing is done about the user and people are still upset

did a user do something rule breaking a long time ago but it didn't come to tour attention until weeks or even months later? bring it up to the rest of the team, most of whom don't want to do anything because it was sufficiently long enough ago that the user wouldn't know what they even did or be able to learn from it so you're stuck with people being upset about the rule breaking but not being able to do anything because the rest of the team doesn't want to do anything

and remember: if you don't pass anything through the democratically elected committee to ensure your actions are above board, you're now the one automatically in the wrong and your decision is now under question because its a potential abuse of power. its more likely your decision is reversed and people are upset and the user that broke a rule not only doesn't learn anything but just got a get out of jail free card, incentivizing them to continue their disruptive behavior

users will do anything and everything to avoid getting into trouble or getting banned, up to and including using the rules, precedent, and lack of precedent to argue against corrective action being taken against them of any kind. even restorative action because the user, to themselves, is not in the wrong. moderation often requires swift action and stiffness of response in order for it to stick because the other option is just letting them stick around to potentially cause more problems.

Creating a council with administrative veto power but no indication on who these people are or how they're chosen. 🤔​

Google, find me synonyms for decentralized.

"nudity is defined as sexually explicit material, but actual nudity is not part of this definition, which we're sure will not be abused by the puritans on this webbed-site"

TWO WEEKS!?

FYI: Don't cross the picket line tomorrow! (Yes, that might mean giving up your Wordle or crossword streak, but you know what's worse? Being a scab.)

https://twitter.com/NYTimesGuild/status/1598678808114204678

this dude became a teacher's are cops person because of a bad interaction in 3rd grade 30 years ago and Is an Anarcho homeschooler who thinks the only "valid" way to learn is self taught. what was I just saying about autodidactism carrying the risk of libertarianism. lol.