Most of my perspective on this issue comes from how I don’t spend more than 2 hours a day on this site, definitely not the 8+ that it would seem to require to stay up on the nuances of everything. As someone who is not extremely online, there’s a lot I don’t see. I do notice with some shock when longtime posters suddenly start dropping like flies in ban waves, but I also recognize that there are people who silently leave and this is at least equally bad.
I made a thread about downbulls as the counterpart to upbears, just not a linear opposite. Someone’s very clearly here to make a mess? Ban them instantly. Someone’s posted for a while but done some hurtful things? Warn them, give them a bull on their user page that links to their problematic post(s), and if they accumulate too many then ban them and any user will easily be able to see why, without sifting through hundreds of actions per day of mod logs.
Fantastic post. Let’s start actively fixing shit.
Love the ‘kiddy pool’ idea.
Here are my views and suggestions on these:
1: Support it fully.
2: Agree, no criticisms there.
3: Kinda agree, but I see a problem, namely that the “50% downvoted” exemption wouldn’t work for the first person to downvote it. Maybe it checks retroactively? So a bot would have time to differentiate between someone trolling and someone downvoting a legitimately shit take
4: I am pretty sure we have that already, but it can and should def be expanded if it helps in any way.
5: Agree fully.
6: on one hand, cool idea, on the other hand, could mean even more work for already overworked admins
7: sounds alright to me.
8: I’d leave the decision to the admins as for whether it is permanent, but I agree with the IP part.
9: Kinda agree, kinda don’t, because without those posts, chances are that nobody (except the ones affected obv) would have even noticed the rise of Transphobia on the site.
10: If it’s possible without having to do too much tech work, sure, sounds good.
Make the number one featured post the old pink and blue. A message of support in the title. You can even change it up on holidays with some fun edits, like those top bars on reddit.
Anyone with a problem will out themselves and get banned. Bada bing bada boom.
