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You can't imagine how true.
95% or more of those who use a forum want order and reason. A few percent want what THEY want - not what the owners or managements goal is. Others think every community on the web is like Facebook, Twitter or their own private "group".
Our forum(s) have 1 3/4 million posts and tens of thousands of members. We've banned about 10 members per year except one year when the inmates truly took over the place and we had to get rid of about 25. I think if you take ANY subset of the population in the tens of thousands you will find some that just cannot stay civil and respect others property.
There is a time and place for reddit (hopefully everyone knows what that is)....heck, I belong myself. I love the Florida Man sub-reddit. But when it comes to informational forums, I like information. If that's being too authoritarian, so be it.
Each individual has a different viewpoint on exactly where the lines are - and what the end purpose of the forum is. That's why I always let my moderators make the decisions....because they were on the front lines. Sometimes they are/were too strict, but again....so be it. Better to be too strict than to have users look at the forums and be scared away by the strong personalities.
However - in the end - our strictly run forums outlasted and outgrew 99% plus of other forums and still are growing today. Perhaps that indicates what type of community people (in general) prefer? |
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