If you're put in a moderation position, you shouldn't be such a massive faggot that you can't handle things without abusing your power and fucking both the site's users over and the site itself.
I do not disagree. My own reading of the situation that unfolded on the first page of this thread was that a mod was being gay. Gay mods are a valid problem to complain about and the forum has specific guidelines for how to make such a complaint. Those guidelines appear at the top of every page in this subforum:
However, JUW was having a tantrum. He posted a thread in Talk To Staff, but he didn't receive instant gratification for his hurt feelings -- as you would expect when a problem must be resolved through private conversations to which you are a not a party. JUW could have gone and done something else while he waited to hear back, the problem would have been fixed, and life would have gone on without anybody except JUW, Null, and the involved moderator being aware that anything had happened. JUW didn't want that; he wanted everybody to hear of this drastic internet injustice
right now, so he came in here screaming "RISE UP AGAINST MODERATOR OPPRESSION MY BROTHERS" and tried to incite a shitstorm, pissing off everybody.
This is true to a point. However if you invest the time and effort into creating a thread on a lolcow, then you've arguably made the decision to take it seriously.
I agree with you to an extent as well. However, I have personal insight that I believe applies to this kind of situation.
I dabble in creative works as a hobby, under different assumed names than the one I use here. I won't say whether those creative works are classifiable as art or writing or music or 3D printing or interpretive dance or film or independent gideo vames or theater or whatever the fuck else exists nowadays. I don't create shit to get famous, I don't create shit to farm clout, I don't create shit as a career, and I won't post any of my shit here because that would be stupid.
A freshly-minted lolcow thread is a compilation of information about a unique person that is presented in such a way as to interest, excite, and entertain the reader -- while also inspiring the reader to do more research. It's a creative work. As a recreational creator, I know firsthand that when you create something, you always -- either intentionally or subconsciously -- put a piece of yourself in it. I am also acutely aware that one of the most difficult things a creator can possibly do is take their work -- especially a creation that they poured their heart and soul into -- and put it in front of a judgmental audience that has never heard of the creator or their work and has no advance reason to give a shit about either. When you do this, you may receive applause; you may receive applause but it feels like it's empty/not enough; you may receive a chorus of boos; worst of all you may receive deafening silence. Trying to win a new audience's approval seriously sucks; it can very easily lead to heartbreak and occasionally a creator gets so assmad that he starts blaming Zionist conspiracies for his rejection and joins the German Workers Party. Creators trying and failing to make it is a tale as old as time.
If you create stuff and put it in front of an audience -- or even if you don't publish your works yourself and they leak out anyway -- then eventually, one of your creations is going to go over like a fart in church. You'll get zero likes on the twitter sonnet you spent hours constructing, or somebody will paint "TAG OVER THIS SHIT" across your lovingly-crafted work of erotic Sonichu graffiti, or your magnum opus OP about Juliana Wetmore will go right to Spergatory. It'll happen. No creator in history has ever published only smash hits; if any creator appears to be an exception to this, that's because any and all of his lesser work was lost to the ether.
It's an inevitability. At some point you
will create something that is received poorly, and you
will be taken off guard. Your feelings
will be hurt. It
will suck ass. The first time this happens
will be the hardest, and you
will want to respond in some way.
You can respond by defending your creation, which will only annoy the critics and make you look like a petulant child. You can respond by attacking your critics, which will only cause them to appear in greater and more powerful numbers like the cops in a Grand Theft Auto game. You can respond by throwing a tantrum. Many aspiring creators, when faced with their first rejection, just melt right the fuck down and never recover.
I know firsthand that when you're suffering from a case of the butthurt, it can be very difficult to choose the only objectively correct response in this type of situation:
suck it up and move on. Take a break if you have to, cry on a good friend's shoulder if you're that kind of person, then insert coin, press continue, and get back to work. Grow some thicker skin. Learn from your fuckups and do better next time. This is especially true in a place like the Kiwi Farms; my observation has been that while the people here respond viciously to each other's mistakes, that response is short-lived and the critics are very quick to lose interest and move on as long as the target of their criticism doesn't double down. If you work hard on an OP that turns out to suck, you'll catch some shit for it but the shit will slide off in time.
This does not apply if your OP revealed something particularly juicy about you, so hide your damn powerlevel.
tl;dr JUW posted a thread, caught some criticism, and got assmad. Do not get assmad about criticism. Even if the criticism violates boundaries, keep your shit together and report the violations through appropriate channels. JUW did this but when those reports were not instantly processed, he turned to drama and shit-stirring.
