> > I wrote about it at length on here in the past, but sum pplz didn't
> > want to face teh facts (;^Д^)
> Vidlii has that typical problem which many 'alternative' sites suffer
> from, namely that it tries to 'bring back the old Internet' in a very
> warped and out-of-touch sort of way;
> -First the admin gets sick of overmoderation on mainstream sites, and
> decides to rebel against that by enforcing no moderation whatsoever,
> just to fulfill some kind of libertarian fantasy about what the Internet
> used to look like, that isn't at all true.
> -Thanks to having little or no moderation, there is little or no
> discernible culture, which means the site is not attractive to anyone
> except right-wing zealots, gorefags, low-effort shitposters, and
> edgelords, who really only value the site as a place to dump their
> bullshit, which is usually banned everywhere else.
> -Thanks to the large presence of unfunny edgelords, the site loses any
> word of mouth traction. Anyone who stumbles onto the site or checks it
> out based on some reccomendation with soon find it utterly detestable.
> Even if they're into edgy stuff, they will likely get bored if they have
> any appreciation for diversity. This means that the only people who
> stick around will be the aforementioned edgelords, who again only like
> the site because their bullshit wouldn't fly anywhere else.
> -Thanks to admin not moderating, this becomes an ever repeating vicious
> cycle.
It's kinda funny - back in about 2002/2003, I remembar getting a stern
warning from a gaming forum moderator for "promoting warez" (AKA
casually mentioning that I had a chipped PS1 and played copied games
when I was younger)
And if there was any "flaming" (and I don't mean calling someone a
"nigger" or a "faggot", but rather calling someone an "idiot" or
swearing at them outside of the designated
slightly-less-moderated-than-the-rest-of-the-site board), things would
get shut down quickly and you would likely get banned
And god forbid if u made any jokes or adult references that the staff
didn't appreciate...
That's how much of the web was back then - if anything, it was stricter
than the average corporate-run website/service today (;^Д^)
The main differences are that back then it was more about enforcing good
manners/netiquette (whereas today it's more about purging "toxicity",
"hate", "bigotry", and other vague concepts), and it was all
manually-performed human moderation rather than automatic filters/bans,
shadow bans, etc.
Outside of 4chan's /b/ during brief periods of time and a few copycats,
there was rarely ever an "unmoderated" place to post on the web where
"anything goes" - and whenever there has been, they've usually proven to
suck harder than the old over-moderated forums from 20+ years ago (;^Д^)
Reference: 2023/10/19(Thu) 08:08:07