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Originally Posted by blender
On the topic of internet forums in general, there is another place I frequent that used to be completely unmoderated. The members policed each other ruthlessly and if you ran afoul of the rules (clearly laid out and stickied on the front page) you would be dealt with with extreme prejudice. It was not a very welcoming and inclusive place but the quality of discussion was top flight and threads didn't veer off course or get c@$ted up by trolls or wasters.
Due to issues stemming from posting innapropriate content that forum is now "lightly moderated" and a lot of long time members feel that it is in decline. I tend to agree.
I like it here more, but there is something to be said for an unregulated online community IMO.
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I also frequent(ed) a forum with absolutely no moderation. It was fun until the topic it was based around had long since passed it's time(video game released in 1999) At which point the board attracted members solely on the fact that it was a "free speech" forum, which turned it over time into an alt-right, racist, facist sounding board where the most prominent members spend all day complaining about minorities and snowflakes - it went from an off topic forum with a bunch of familiar faces where you could have the most honest conversations imaginable into little more than a place for a couple of people to post /pol screencaps of hyper-sjw tweets and calling people who don't think all Muslims are evil terrorists' workplaces to get them fired
Now, not trying to discredit what you're saying, because prior to what I would call the takeover, i almost exclusively posted there and it was great. also, unless the flames leave town and cp remains for some reason for 15 more years, then the situations arent really comparable. But just what I think is an interesting flipside to this