Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-5590118-20141120182446/@comment-24881871-20141124033326

Sloshedtrain wrote: After reading most of the replies on this thread, this thread has stated most of my grievances towards that chat. After the three years the chat has been around, I encountered the same issues arise over and over since its birth. The main problem I have observed is the relationship with users and mods.

The mods are not perfect in any stretch of the imagination, so problems of corruption, favoritism, and overall incompetency begin to run rampant. Some mods just go mad of having to deal with the chaos. Users too share the blame of the disorder. Some people just don't like authority, and some just don't like the person being a mod.

Due to the openness of the Internet, the chat offers a place for people to act out where they normally couldn't in the real world. So this brings many users to cause so many problems in the chat, and an rather inexperienced mod team to handle this type of bullshitry 24/7. Admins and bcrats too directly or indirectly cause disorder in the chat. A change of policy, demotions, promotions, and drama fuel poured themselves, mixed with the other reasons above, we get chaos.

Another thing that really irks me is that the chat becomes a hugbox for emotionally disturbed teenagers. Honestly, I hate seeing this type of shit on the chat; it gives attention to attention whores. I read some replies above about some people pretending to have mental illness, and I have to say this behavior sickens me. These type of occurrences is what I expect from Tumblr and DeviantArt, not from a wiki devoted to creepypasta.

In the problem of offensiveness and vulgarity on the chat is that some users need to grow thick skin and not get offended from a joke or comment, while some users need to tone that edgyness down. There are lines that shall not be crossed, but there has to be lax guidelines on such silly things like jokes, as long as the joke doesn't start harassing/bullying other users, does not annoy or disrupt on the whole chat, and does not bring up extreme NSFW subjects; and I mean extreme subjects.

Usually on IM chats, I tend to be crude and vulgar (if any of you has been in a Skype conversation with me). I try my best not to let that 4chanian absurdity that I'm so used to, not interfere with my conservations on the chat. Overall, I'm pretty lax when it comes to moderating the chat because of this, but I do know that I need to enforce the rules, despite my general disapproval of some of them. We could always do better when handling the chat, and try our best to conduct reasonable actions to handling disputes. Though I hate to be a pessimistic, but I think the chat ultimately unfixable at some aspects. The best way I think to properly describe the chat is if 4chan and Tumblr had a demonic, mentally-impaired child with a strong sense of self-righteousness, entitlement, and attention-seeking.

I agree with nearly everything you've said here. What people often forget is that the moderator team is composed mostly of teenagers who have their own share of real-world responsibilities; you're not going to have tactful diplomats who know exactly what to say and do in tough situations. True, regular users aren't to blame for everything, but there is a considerable amount of stress that comes with babysitting a bunch of moody, hormonal, attention-seeking teens.