My experience as well in several reddit forums (not all though).Reddit is a load of overmoderated crap to be brutally honest.
Reddit's a load of overmoderated crap.My experience as well in several reddit forums (not all though).
Brogan's first-timer experience is not unusual, that happened to me in a couple of forums (unrelated to woodworking). The fact that they are not onboarding new visitors shows that the organizers & mods of the subforum don't know how.
There is no quality control over forums or their moderators. Other than that people either use them or not. The crowd votes with its feet.
It's necessary to forum-surf Reddit to find the one that suits. It's hit or miss. Might find one, might not.
@Muddy Boots
you should read this thread. You will actually get what i mean when i say it's overmoderated. It's what has made reddit so bad these days.
You won't like it too much. Because you have the main set of rules from Proboards just like you do with Reddit. You have your own rules on proboards. your own rules can get your forum banned. The same with Reddit. Reddit can ban your community on whatever it might be the topic.Tachy
You can laugh all you want mate.Tachy.
The challenging thing about those things are that all of that attracts serial internet pests to post like they do on reddit and then think it's all ok for them to post like that everywhere else.The OP is interesting, not because it's directed at Reddit, but because it's a symptom of any overmoderated community with confusing registration requirements. We've likely all joined forums where you couldn't post right away, or you didn't have the right permissions to access the right forum or a hidden forum or to download a certain resource, and none of those instructions were published.
The moral of the OP shouldn't be: "reddit sucks." The moral for all of us to elevate our community experience should be:
- Users expect an easy onboarding experience
- Users demand speed to resolution
- Forum admins need to balance quality vs quantity of new users
- Forum admins need to clarify and be upfront about registration requirements
There is a tendency for communities - whether on Reddit or self hosted - to become more bureaucratic, more ossified, and more burdened by rules and guidelines as time goes on. That Reddits rule was probably well-meaning at the time, but it clearly comes at a cost to the new user experience. Every forum admin should challenge themselves to continually rethink and reevaluate the new user experience every year and to make it simpler and more transparent.
All good points!That Reddits rule was probably well-meaning at the time, but it clearly comes at a cost to the new user experience.
A forum i go on at the moment is full of overmoderation and it's a shocking place to actually post on.
Plenty of truth to that statement.A lot of forums have been bought up by one or two Canadian conglomerates. Ironically, they use a customized version of XenForo as their universal platform across all the forums they own. Hint: They own a lot of "outdoors activity" and other hobby related forums.
They are quite strict with their moderation when it comes to language or politically-charged topics. I find such moderation to be tedious and a turn-off. We're adults. We don't need to be coddled or supervised like children.
And those conglomerates or forum aggregators... have reportedly killed a number of thriving forums due to their overzealous moderation.
And that's why my forum is not overmoderated. Amazingly... the members comport themselves quite well! Go figure.
A lot of forums have been bought up by one or two Canadian conglomerates. Ironically, they use a customized version of XenForo as their universal platform across all the forums they own. Hint: They own a lot of "outdoors activity" and other hobby related forums.
They are quite strict with their moderation when it comes to language or politically-charged topics.
Yeah... I think it is all one big company. But they do operate under a couple of names. Pretty sure they are connected.I'm only aware of one such conglomerate, and from my experience they do not interfere with the severity (or not) of the moderation. They do give their admins and mods only very limited permissions though, and so the admins have no immediate control for example over the censor list, but when requested they have customised the list based on what a very wanted. For example on one such forum I am admin, the word ** was asterisked. They changed this when requested due to it being common in a brand name but also common as a name, as in ** van Dyke
Absolutely agree with this in some industries. We all knew you meant dancing so why mess about censoring it???Even if "bleeped" out, everyone knows what the ****ing words are by the context. (<--Intentionally added the *s to make the point.) Our brains fill it in automagically! The molly-coddling is unnecessary and contrived.
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