This how you spend your sunday, pal?
Yellin’ at people online?
Feel better soon.
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A grassroots created tumblr alternative that popped up a few yers ago.
It immediately shot itself in the foot by banning somebody over “art that looked underage” without having a rule against it, and then coming up with the rule after they’d banned ‘em retroactively.
Nobody trusts mods who make up rules on the fly, and rules that aren’t super clear at all.
Antis are a prime example of why gatekeeping is actually good sometimes….
There’s a difference between “gatekeeping” (pejorative) and community moderation, is the thing.
Gatekeeping inevitably involves people who don’t have any ownership over a group space trying to assert their ownership over the space by bullying and harassing anyone who they feel doesn’t belong.
That’s what antis do when they try to run proships out of fandom spaces.
Community moderation is the leaders of an actual closed group exerting actual authority to decide who does and doesn’t fit the culture of the group, and maintaining boundaries through rules rather than harassment.
Lol, yeah, I was just using gatekeeping the way it’s typically used. But I mean is that antis invade spaces that aren’t theirs then act surprised when the space doesn’t accommodate them.
Yep.
Seen it lol
On the other hand, actually pretty sure Harry (🌺😈) actually had one anti realize they were wrong by pointing out that writing nasty fanfic wasn’t any more wrong than torturing your sims.
Antis are a prime example of why gatekeeping is actually good sometimes….
There’s a difference between “gatekeeping” (pejorative) and community moderation, is the thing.
Gatekeeping inevitably involves people who don’t have any ownership over a group space trying to assert their ownership over the space by bullying and harassing anyone who they feel doesn’t belong.
That’s what antis do when they try to run proships out of fandom spaces.
Community moderation is the leaders of an actual closed group exerting actual authority to decide who does and doesn’t fit the culture of the group, and maintaining boundaries through rules rather than harassment.