prog | (no subject)

Well, the moderator of

davis_square just put the community on approved-posts-only lockdown after a few people offered criticism of her management style. She also deleted several people's comments, and is presently declaring to be close to deleting the community altogether. I consider this behavior a breach of the social contract inherent in any moderated message board's user/admin relationship, and reason enough to just drop the joint and move on elsewhere.

However, it is a useful and friendly LJ-community -- much (more reliable / less idiotic) than, say,

b0st0n -- and I wouldn't want to lose it, nor see it splinter off into wee fragments. Any suggestions from the crossover portion of my f-list on how to follow up on this?

Update:

daerr just pointed out that

davissquare now seems to exist, created by

komos, whom I don't know. I don't know if this person took part in the meta-discussion on the first community since that all got blown away... any insight?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Some sort of content-neutral size restriction might be a good idea. Something like, "All postings must be lj-cut to be no more than 20 lines tall, and all images must be inside a cut."

This should avoid the situation where, say, the posting for a Red Cross fundraiser for New Orleans gets deleted, while the Somerville Illuminations tour posting stays up. Both are welcome, ditto roommate posts or offers of spare concert tickets, as long as they're under 20 lines. But a 640x480 image promoting anything gets nuked from orbit.

Sounds perfectly reasonable. ^_^

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