Fandom Wank has now been placed on post moderation due to excessive trolling. A one-liner idiot post where everyone can have some snarky fun in the comments is perhaps mildly tolerated once, repeated offensive attacks is another thing. All posts have now been deleted.

One of the reasons for moderation is that due to the trolling

zorrorojo has removed account creation. There should be no reason that the behavior of a few should spoil it for everyone. (Although there are those who might say the same thing about FW in comparison to fandom.)

Having posts on moderation would stop any sort of trolling like that occuring again and enable accounts to stay open. It might also cause people to be a little more cautious and thoughtful before posting a wank: perhaps taking the time to fully explore it's potential, writing it up clearly or not rushing so much to be the first to get a post up that the original content is removed before any wank actually occurs.

We're taking these steps to stop this type of trolling from occuring again, it doesn't have to be a dramatic change to community. We'll try to unscreen wanks as quickly as we can and keep things running smoothly. In the case of two screened posts reporting the same wank, the mods will pick the one that is more complete.

Thoughts?

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oysteria
2004-10-20 07:07 pm UTC (link)

Wait, ashenmote is male?

Hmm. If f_w were really a democracy, would we even have mods? (How did they get stuff done in 5th century BC Athens, anyway, once they were finished voting? Cyclical appointments?) Although for what it's worth, a community the size of f_w is probably one of the few that could concievably function as a radical democracy, if we weren't all such obstinate assholes.

I do think that f_w has been around long enough that we can find experienced, competant mods among members of more recent vintage than the LJ or Blurty days, and who aren't necessarily Close Personal Friends of the current mods. I wouldn't exclude "Cabal" members from consideration, but I see no reason to limit our choices to them, anyway. (Whoever they are. Who are they, anyway? I cannot fucking keep track.) All I would really hope for--aside from competant, active, and geographically disparate enough that not all of them live in the same time zone--is that there would be enough diversity of opinion among the mods that the next time someone decides to delete f_w "just for funsies" someone else says "let's not."

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	deoridhe 2004-10-20 07:43 pm UTC (link)
	Ashenmote is a registered male on the Official List of Fandom Wank Males, so yes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ashenmote 2004-10-20 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly. Even though I came to regret entering the list because my lack of boobs made me a second class minion in the eyes of my lewd, hormic, het master. grinds a dagger (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	deoridhe 2004-10-20 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	But... think of the good you do for science. And at least you're not Sepia... he's got it really bad. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ashenmote 2004-10-20 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	Oh yes, science. sighs But it got me a pretty gorilla icon, too. That's something. Why does Sepia have it bad? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	deoridhe 2004-10-20 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	Even though he's listed as a male, people still think he's a girl. It's the PONIES. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ashenmote 2004-10-21 12:35 am UTC (link)
	True. Ponies are girly stuff for girly girls. giggles (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Awwwww. vasaris 2004-10-20 09:01 pm UTC (link)
	But Cthulhu-chan still loves you! ;) is blown backwards as Cthulhu-chan launches self at Ashenmote and pretends not to see what the tentacles are doing (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Awwwww. ashenmote 2004-10-20 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	Uff! This are the little things that sustain me in these darksome and dreary ties! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Awwwww. ashenmote 2004-10-20 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	And I'm pretty sure I typed 'times'. Hmmmm. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Awwwww. deoridhe 2004-10-20 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	OMG UR SP3LING IZ PASTEDE ON YAY (Reply to this)(Parent)

snacky
2004-10-20 09:38 pm UTC (link)

I do think that f_w has been around long enough that we can find experienced, competant mods among members of more recent vintage than the LJ or Blurty days, and who aren't necessarily Close Personal Friends of the current mods.

I think so too, although there's always going to be a couple of problems. Once you're a mod, people suspect you of having an axe to grind - I don't see any way to guarantee that anyone, n00b or oldbie, won't have their own grudges or opinions or friends who try to influence them (and I'm not saying this is currently the case - just that this is what everyone who's NOT a mod suspects that mods seem to be about).

I also don't see why having been around for a long time automatically equals = OMG OPPRESSOR TRYING TO RUN F_W WITHOUT ME!

Eh, I'm not a mod, but I don't know, I just think people are taking f_w too seriously, once again -- not you, necessarily, but so many people seem determined to make it not about mocking, but into a fandom institution, something much more important than a comm meant for taking the piss. "FREE F_W FOR THE PEOPLE!" I keep seeing, but it seems like the people want it so they can run it their way.

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