Emuz means well most of the time, but it did really boil down to people no that having that much time anymore (the failed post tRO server revival comes to mind in particular).

Originally posted by Xkeeper

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SMW Central happened at the end of the second incarnation/third incarnation, due to the requirement of "approval" to post in those forums. (In retrospect, stricter moderation would have been better, but this forum doesn't really have good moderator tools.) Enough people got fed up that they moved.

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I remember quite well it was both the most active and yet infamous part of the forum due to the amount of users flooding in. And yeah, stricter moderation would been better as opposed to restricting posting, but the main negative thing about the old Acmlm board culture (that did seep into both Board2 and JUL culture afterwards) was the elitism, people liked to counter ignorance by being mean even if a lot of the time it might been someone younger or less experienced, and thus probably only helped to limit the flow of fresh blood (but we covered this elsewhere already before I think ).

Nowadays I focus mostly on cutting off assholes early and fast when moderating places, especially if it's people who like to edge the line on whats allowed. That was another problem with the older Acmlm Board moderation unfortunatly, some troublemakers got to stick around for way too long.

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Twitter is about the only social network I use, as it's good to see what friends are up to right now. It's not really good for anything indepth like politics though. I do use Reddit but I wouldn't call it a social network, more of a super huge forum with it's own subcommunities, some are awesome, some are downright awful... unsurprisingly the best communities on Reddit runs a lot more like a traditional forum than depending on the silly upvote system.

Originally posted by Xkeeper

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Eevee wrote a lot of words on the subject of moderation already, which I pretty much agree with. If you've been here long enough, you'll see exactly what they describe in the history of this community.

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Seems about right from my own experience. I can also add that having a almighty supreme leader doing the decisions leads to less drama than trying to be overly democratic about it (adding on that whole small communities are a monarchy not a democracy thing).

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Not even preorderable in my market. They have it look like a European SNES which is cute, though I'm hoping they don't necessarily use PAL roms...

I'll honestly more hyped to see a dump of the final Starfox 2 and see how many diffrences there are. There been claims the prototype we have isn't the final version before.

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