Hopefully this gets read But i actually until just now had no idea that there was a super-duper secret alternate space for āregularsā to come together. I had noticed certain people had Regular titles under their name and wondered where those came from but didnāt give it too much thought.
Frankly having been part of this community for many years and not knowing that there was a division between me and a āregularā i find myself somewhat at a loss. Maybe you could say that i have no horse in this race because i was never in the exclusive kids club, so this forum change is mostly wasted on me. And i mainly like to stick to discussions directly related to posts on the front of the site, so even if i was clued into the Regular thing i probably wouldntāve participated unless forced to do so.
for those that were part of it i understand how much the change may not be fully welcomed but i think keeping the community fragmented is hurtful to the site in the long term. It can create some hostilities or elitism. Iāve witnessed this first hand as being a moderator for various tight knitted communities. Maybe i donāt fully get what the issue is, so pardon my ignorance.
The issue here is that jlw feels the community provides no value or income to BB - a lean and fledgling independent publisher. jlw has clashed with regular commenters, and it has finally come to this. In the now-vanished lounge thread, jlw said something to the effect of āthis discourse instance exists only for purpose of discussing boingboing blog posts, go start your own if you want a communityā
I can assure you from personal experience that that is not true.
I am no longer a Regular, despite having the numbers for it. I was not banned, and AFAIK I didnāt do anything that would cause me to lose Regular status.
Itās an empty badge now anyway. Honestly, it kinda was before, too; the arbitrary nature of its award made it irrelevant except so far as it allowed access to another ātopicā and now thatās gone, I really donāt see the point. I have always judged people on the content of their thoughts not the color of their trust level anyway.
Such should be wonderful. Only the idea at all makes me happy. It does make good, not to sour bread. But If someone want to, its easy to turn into a sour making starter. Itās so old an balanced you can play with it.
But indeed very OT.
This is what I keep thinking- I always thought using tiers to snipe at people behind their back was kind of a shitty thing, but why not moderate that instead of just blowing the whole thing up and taking something people valued with it?
I could understand if the site were trying to be hands-off with little to no moderation, but this isnāt that kind of place- and this move is being done with the promise of more moderation. So why not use the moderation targeted at the actual concern?
But i actually until just now had no idea that there was a super-duper secret alternate space for āregularsā to come together. I had noticed certain people had Regular titles under their name and wondered where those came from but didnāt give it too much thought.
Only the idea at all makes me happy. It does make good, not to sour bread. But If someone want to, its easy to turn into a sour making starter. Itās so old an balanced you can play with it.