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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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[prog.livejournal.com]

See update. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of similarly-named Davis Square communities have all been created today, but one seems to have caught the most obvious name. However I don't know anything about the person who created it...?

[komos.livejournal.com]

I fired it up because I think the mod has gone too far this time. I wasn't part of the discussion that led down this road, but I have engaged her in the past over her selective enforcement of rules that I didn't agree with in the first place.

For what it's worth, I'm more than happy to hand over the reins to someone who won't turn into a censor every time someone disagrees. It's supposed to be a community, after all.