Transparency - changes to the BBS

[Medievalist]

@Nonentity

Wow. I leave the place for the night, and suddenly there’s a ~300-post-long thread (and now that I’m done typing, more than 300…) that I absolutely must read through in its entirety.

Not much to add here that others haven’t already said.

Well, I’ve got something…

@Israel_B

Tiered communities are something I dont like. Goes against my nature. Real life is full of tiers and in-groups and so on. I don’t tend to make it in with the fancy people and honestly thats fine as well. Tiered online communities are no different; there’s the in-group and there’s the out-group.

@anon89609066

Excellent. The caste system must die.

…oh, wait, I was wrong. @Israel_B & @anon89609066 already said it.

I personally felt that at least a couple of the restricted threads served as backwaters where toxic people and attitudes curdled and metastasized outside of the mainstream, and appreciated it only for keeping that backbiting poison semi-isolated.

If you can’t say it in public, maybe you should go shout it down a well.

@ficuswhisperer

I take it the banquets you attended never had a “kids table”? (Which was always the more fun place to be, mind you but let’s not get too wrapped up in that aspect.)

I always sit at the kids table. Although sometimes it annoys the kids.

@SteampunkBanana

I never go to the front page. I bbs, and if I find the headline interesting then read the full post.

You’re sitting at the kids table, then! Pro tip: there are bbs category views.

Thank you @jlw, @xeni, @doctorow, @pesco, @frauenfelder, @beschizza, @orenwolf for doing this. I think getting rid of one of the elite tiers will make this place better, and hope you will continue to try to find ways to remove more.