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Well, on the bright side of things some of the people on the list that was created to complain about otherkin moderators being too oppressive seem to actually be willing to listen to the opposing point of view. This makes me hopeful that eventually things can be worked out with them.
On the other hand, MY new list (with less than ten members) already has what looks like it's first troll. Someone felt it necessary to come on, apparently using a morph account, and post a link to a story archived at www.nifty.org, which is an erotic stories archive, asking if I'd wrote it. (I actually did, one or two years ago if memory serves, initially as something for Dusk and only posted it there later. My first and last attempt at writing erotica, and it's really pretty bad. Like an X-rated bad romance novel in a fantasy setting.) I had a hard time deciding what to do... my first impulse was to delete his post and ban him from the list, but I held back and thought it over. There's a chance that I'm wrong about this guy being a morph, for one, small though it might be, and I don't want to overreact and ban someone who legitimately had just stumbled over this elsewhere and wanted to know. So I decided to do a couple of things... first of all I emailed nifty and asked them to remove the story. I'm not ashamed of writing it, but it really is pretty bad and it's obviously just giving people a weapon if it's publicly available. Then I made my first mod note to the list. I told him that his post was both offtopic (which it was, had absolutely nothing to do with otherkin topics) and a personal issue that should have been addressed in private mail, not to the list. I also told him that if it happened again I would ban him.
I'm not going to remove his post or the link from the archives, because as bad as the story is there's nothing in it that I'm ashamed of. And if anyone on the list wants the answer, I'll definately give it to them... in private mail. I think that censoring the list archives to make it look as if it had never happened would set a bad precedent, and there's really no need to anyway.
Gods I hope I'm handling this right. Moderating vorgenhunting was much easier than this looks to be.
On the other hand, MY new list (with less than ten members) already has what looks like it's first troll. Someone felt it necessary to come on, apparently using a morph account, and post a link to a story archived at www.nifty.org, which is an erotic stories archive, asking if I'd wrote it. (I actually did, one or two years ago if memory serves, initially as something for Dusk and only posted it there later. My first and last attempt at writing erotica, and it's really pretty bad. Like an X-rated bad romance novel in a fantasy setting.) I had a hard time deciding what to do... my first impulse was to delete his post and ban him from the list, but I held back and thought it over. There's a chance that I'm wrong about this guy being a morph, for one, small though it might be, and I don't want to overreact and ban someone who legitimately had just stumbled over this elsewhere and wanted to know. So I decided to do a couple of things... first of all I emailed nifty and asked them to remove the story. I'm not ashamed of writing it, but it really is pretty bad and it's obviously just giving people a weapon if it's publicly available. Then I made my first mod note to the list. I told him that his post was both offtopic (which it was, had absolutely nothing to do with otherkin topics) and a personal issue that should have been addressed in private mail, not to the list. I also told him that if it happened again I would ban him.
I'm not going to remove his post or the link from the archives, because as bad as the story is there's nothing in it that I'm ashamed of. And if anyone on the list wants the answer, I'll definately give it to them... in private mail. I think that censoring the list archives to make it look as if it had never happened would set a bad precedent, and there's really no need to anyway.
Gods I hope I'm handling this right. Moderating vorgenhunting was much easier than this looks to be.
