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[anonniemouse]

Please use this post for discussion of those contentious, murky, triggering issues too complex to discuss/moderate on the main post.

Note that this post is NOT a free-for-all and will still be modded for slurs, namecalling, doxxing and trolling. But fair warning that it will not be moderated for discussion of issues some find triggering (trans issues, mental illness, etc.) and that if you choose to participate here, you do so at your own risk.

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tf-talk moderators complaining?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure if the details exactly are accurate, but I cant think of any other anon comms where there has been more activity recently with moderators that have frozen troll threads.

https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/305497.html?thread=1857657689#cmt1857657689


Hopefully this won't be overly obvious or lead to a lot of speculation, but I'm looking for feedback/advice (and a vent spot) about anon comm things, and this seems as good a place as any to post it!

I moderate another anon comm, similar to this one in format but focused around a different set of (fairly sensitive) topics. Recently it's gotten a lot more active and I've had to freeze a few threads for various reasons...and the thing is, while DW anon posting is anonymous, as moderator I do get to see IP addresses and I've realized that basically EVERY contentious-or-inflammatory thread/subthread recently has been started by THE SAME FUCKING IP ADDRESS.

I can't tell if they're just a troll, someone involved with the anon comm topic trying to manage discussion or discredit the community, or what. But it's almost certainly the same person every time, whether they're kicking off a contentious thread or chiming in aggressively to an existing thread!

Right now what I'm doing is just keeping an eye on their activity and shutting down any threads/comments that actually break the rules, but there are a lot of lower-level contentious conversations going on that this person is stoking. I think that's the right move for now but it's super frustrating from my perspective (especially when they're complaining about my moderating, LOL)...and I can't help second guessing my judgment. Is my inaction creating potential problems, or is my impulse to "do something" just my own personal irritation and gossippy impulse to highlight someone's bad behavior? If I even were to "do something" what would I do, post a PSA that could devolve into a witchhunt??

Thank you all for being my diary today. To be honest, just venting about it to a relevant audience feels GREAT.

Re: tf-talk moderators complaining?

[(Anonymous)]

sa fwiw if this is about tf-talk I would rather see all of this poster's activity frozen if they seem to be here to cause wank, even if it is ambiguous in places. We already know from Chris on TumblR and the Facebook faq page that it's the Posse's mo to play dumb and exhaust people with flawed arguments and redundant questions.

Re: tf-talk moderators complaining?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah-- I remember back when things got weird briefly about Meg posting a year or two ago, and Teablogger took some criticism-- there was a really specific bad-actor vibe. Like-- things getting nasty in a surprising and rapid way. I think the mod has made good calls about which threads they freeze, and so on-- I have a lot of confidence in their judgement, and would trust their instincts on this, whichever way they decide. If it even is our comm, and our mod.