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[prog]

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?

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[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

She's gone and made the community entirely moderated.

If we create a new Davis Square community, with competent and active maintainers, but not moderated, it'll automatically get more traffic, and the old one will eventually starve from lack of postings. I know pheromone was interested in being a moderator, and I think she knew one or two others. I'd be available as well.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Community fight!

Never a good situation. Sorry I don't have any *useful* suggestions. I suppose a note to lj_abuse might be worth a shot...that's a pretty clear case of moderator abuse / power going to one's head.

useless suggestion

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Somebody call the waaaaahmmbulance!

I'd say, give it a day or two (or three), see if things calm down. It would, indeed, suck if suddenly there were multiple relevant communities - there are something like 4 Denver communities, only one of which is high traffic, so the choice is either: see the same post 4 times, or chance missing something someone has only posted to one place. Bleah.

If she doesn't want to deal with the occasional fights with the non-moderators, she ought to just hand it over.

She nuked _all_ the comments, dude; I can't see any of them now.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Also, searching LJ interests for "davis square" only turns up two communities with that name. So - for now - there are only two communities to be confused about :)

I liked <lj user=davis_square>...

[kyroraz.livejournal.com]

... exactly the way it was. I don't know why things just became psycho, but it's become to the point where I smell DEEEATH!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

nor see it splinter off into wee fragments.

Yesterday I did register davis_people, out of the same frustration everyone else is feeling, but I'd be more than willing to delete it and go with davissquare if it means we could all have a comfortable place together to communicate.

I'll also offer work as a maintainer!

interesting

[kahuna-burger.livejournal.com]

I haven't really explored the livejournal communities, but this discussion is inpiring me...