- Joined
- Nov 14, 2012
For a long time I have tolerated annoying, gay, retarded private message chains that are hundreds of participants in size.
My theory has been that if I disable this, people will simply move to Discord, which has historically caused extreme problems as people start sending nudes, sexually harassing each other, and getting involved in ultra-gay drama that I do not have the time or patience to untangle or deal with.
DM chains on the site have been annoying but I have tolerated it as a lesser evil. After months of deleting DMs that got too annoying, I recently limited participants to 10 (either in total or per inviter?). However, after the Catler drama (not because of it), people have taken up spamming all sorts of bullshit and I am getting a dozen reports a day about these now. I think that since the Catler drama caused so much discussion, people want to try and create the next incubator for gay retarded bullshit for fun.
So now I'm implementing a rule. If you invite someone to a DM, you should be certain of one of two things:
If someone needs to see something or you want to talk to a few people specifically, that's also fine.
If someone neither wants nor needs to be involved in a discussion, that is just fucking annoying.
If you're invited to a DM that is neither relevant to you or your interests, you can report it. I ask you report the FIRST MESSAGE in the DM chain, and you specify who invited you. You can see who invited you by looking at the conversation participants panel and looking under your name and custom title.
I will start restricting DM privileges for accounts that are starting these. I encourage that people instead make use of public boards.
If there's some sort of underlying issue as to why people are making these things (like, you can't make a thread about a video game in the video game board because they're not moderated correctly?), you can gripe in this thread and I will read it.
My theory has been that if I disable this, people will simply move to Discord, which has historically caused extreme problems as people start sending nudes, sexually harassing each other, and getting involved in ultra-gay drama that I do not have the time or patience to untangle or deal with.
DM chains on the site have been annoying but I have tolerated it as a lesser evil. After months of deleting DMs that got too annoying, I recently limited participants to 10 (either in total or per inviter?). However, after the Catler drama (not because of it), people have taken up spamming all sorts of bullshit and I am getting a dozen reports a day about these now. I think that since the Catler drama caused so much discussion, people want to try and create the next incubator for gay retarded bullshit for fun.
So now I'm implementing a rule. If you invite someone to a DM, you should be certain of one of two things:
- That person wants to be in your DM, or
- That person needs to be in your DM.
If someone needs to see something or you want to talk to a few people specifically, that's also fine.
If someone neither wants nor needs to be involved in a discussion, that is just fucking annoying.
If you're invited to a DM that is neither relevant to you or your interests, you can report it. I ask you report the FIRST MESSAGE in the DM chain, and you specify who invited you. You can see who invited you by looking at the conversation participants panel and looking under your name and custom title.
I will start restricting DM privileges for accounts that are starting these. I encourage that people instead make use of public boards.
- Q&A: Outside of forum rules, I don't care what is posted here. I do ask people phrase OPs with a question.
- General Discussion: A lot of big DMs seem to be just general interest discussion and I do not know why people don't just use off-topic boards.
- Mass Debates: This board is almost effectively just for arguing and infighting so it should be utilized more.
If there's some sort of underlying issue as to why people are making these things (like, you can't make a thread about a video game in the video game board because they're not moderated correctly?), you can gripe in this thread and I will read it.
