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by aoeu345 3411 days ago
For what it's worth, I used to live with a guy who used the Magic Lantern firmware add-on for certain Canon cameras, which was very powerful free software that had a community forum. He would tell me about how he'd shit talk the devs for not including some feature or when something wasn't working. It's pretty terrible.
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astrodust 3411 days ago
Having a community leader who isn't afraid to crack some heads to keep people in line is always important. People like this poison any community.

Make a Code of Conduct and use it to control your community rather than let your community control you.

It's like parents complaining their kids are "out of control" and "there's nothing I can do". Seriously? We've been raising kids for a hundred thousand years. This shit isn't new.

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ggame 3410 days ago
People will complain about the code of conduct and again about their banning upon breaking a code of conduct. Managing a community takes a lot of time for something you're not getting paid for.
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aoeu345 3410 days ago
If you have a good enough product it shouldn't really matter, right? Just ban the trolls, answer questions where you can, but mainly work on the product. No one should be sifting through questions - They should be taking the most commonly asked ones, answering them, and swiftly banning those who seem unhelpful and rude. There's no way that type of moderation would kill your community unless your product just sucked enough that it didn't grow on it's own.
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pbhjpbhj 3411 days ago
>Seriously? We've been raising kids for a hundred thousand years. //

I wonder what proportion of that has been done with only a couple of hours of parental/family contact per day (and those when the parents are most tired).

Also probably, for better or worse, corporal punishment has been a mainstay up until the last few decades.

In short, I don't think modern Western parenting can rely much on the methods of the past.

It's totally OT but I'm interested in thoughts/responses.

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aoeu345 3411 days ago
This is good advice. Don't be afraid to wield the ban hammer.
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fsloth 3411 days ago
People think the interface layer they see is all there is and all developers need to do is add some goodwill to make the software function.
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