One thing that Boing Boing comments / forums always got right

[codinghorror]

@gracchus

“our hands are tied by Splat, and anyway the world is a terrible and dark place so why try to make things better? Woe is us!” (this was also their approach to life in general)

This is… not a good approach to life.

Amazing summary, thank you for sharing! There was a whole culture around the dot-com boom and its immediate aftermath (1997-2003).

[Tsu_Dho_Nimh]

@anon33932455

Moderator’s secret; You don’t have “free speech” in a forum. You have a civil community. Abide by the rules, be welcome. Act like a bag of syphilitic monkeys, be removed.

Even monkey troupes have rules.

[anon33932455]

Timely adage!

Monkeys eavesdrop on each other and listen in on monkey conversations

[Immutable_Mike]

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Grammar but no manners. Nice.

[Melizmatic]

[Mindysan33]

[creesto]

Good mod.

This has been Civility Bot.

[NukeML]

What did I miss?

[smulder]

sock puppets complaining that moderators are guilty of genocide, or something