I won’t rat anyone out

I mean, 'twas is a word

He said it is was and he meant it.

Ime rules broken in a context like that are selectively not enforced

Eh. I don't know what the specific story behind OP's post was, but generally whenever I see things like "they gave life to the community" or whatever trotted out as a defense of a banned poster, it was usually an idiot troll whose usual contribution was to derail every discussion and piss people off. They only gave life to community if you define "life" as a high post count, which is a flawed metric for this very reason.

Edit: down voting the person I'm replying to isn't needed, the conversation about which cultural norms we do or don't wanna keep from reddit may be easier to have without the downvotes

This is a the threadiverse, most of the super active posters really do give life to the communities they frequent because no one else posts, and in my experience, are generally reasonable, good folks, if still human and fallible. If sunshine is choosing not to name and shame, it may just be someone having a bad day, or not noticing they broke a rule, or a disagreement they had over whether a rule should or shouldn't be as it is, where sunshine had the final say as moderator

That was very true on reddit, but I don't wanna bring the same "active posters suck" mentality here to the threadiverse just because it was an understandable sentiment on reddit. We have much fewer users, and only a tiny subset of that already small number posts or reposts anything

Shutout to @PugJesus@lemmy.world and @fossilesque@mander.xyz, my fave regular posters

the number of posts is not that bad of a metric. you are confusing it with the number of comments, which would be correlated to the toxic behavior you just described. But, in general, the number of posts in any average community is a good metric for bringing content to the fediverse. If you know of any other metrics (better or worst) just tell... I don't think there's anything else. And a community needs posts more than anything. The comments may come and go, but I see them a bit as secondary/ accessory, and just a symptom of what's going on within the community (in which case, we need to see if they're constructive, positive, on topic, and so on.)

Thank you for the nice comment, as usual

Speaking of fallible, I've certainly taken my fair share of well-deserved lumps from moderation, lmao

Moderator action establishes a baseline for conduct in the community. Sometimes, even regular contributors need a whack on the nose with a newspaper - otherwise it ends up a tightly-knit clique with "rules for thee but not for me".

In the ITG (Dance Dance Revolution) community, a high profile, decade long contributor and tournament organizer was found to be a wife beater. The guy was also a cock, so I’m kinda sad it took his wife to get him kicked out of the scene.

Someone needs to scour the modlog to find the person hah

If a dedicated community member gets banned it's usually just mod abuse like on reddit.

Tis was true

I was a ‘top 1% contributor’ in a subreddit (which I only discovered when opening new Reddit in an incognito tab) and had many productive conversations, until the mods banned links to sites that I used, started requiring links to sites that are blocked in my country, and removed my comment over it. Quickest I ever quit a community.

Is that a slur? When used as a verb? And would that be against the rules here? If so, oh the irony. 'Twas nice knowing you, valiant Sunshine...

otherwise it ends up a tightly-knit clique with "rules for thee but not for me"

The "too important to reprimand" issue is why power corrupts and why Justitia is stylised with a blindfold. Letting things slide with some, but not with others, will create tension and lead to arguments why it's fine when that other guy does it. You'll end up with a bad apple, who may end up spoiling the bunch, or at least a few other apples. The people worth keeping around will accept the reprimand with no hard feelings.

Granted, the acclaim of being a frequent poster might not quite stack up to the level of power where that becomes a frequent issue, but that's a difference in magnitude, not character.

And thats okay! I appreciate that the smaller size of this platform makes it easier to see and remember the human behind the screen than it is on unbelievably massive platforms like reddit, and part of that humanity that it helps you remember is that people have bad days, get shit wrong, and sometimes don't put their best foot foreward, even when they post a lot- such is being human

Thank you, I try ️

I've been thinking on another post about the fediverse and its culture lately (different vein from the last one though), but we'll see if I ever actually sit down and write it all out

Hope you have a good one! Its always lovely to see your name and icon around

Totally support your decision.

And then the comunity dies soon after. Tam param.