[BobaFloutist]

"Push" is the right word, because moderating web forums was always a labor of love, and automated trolling/spamming has only gotten easier and more prevalent, not to mention anti-mod culture.

It's just too hard to moderate a space with so little friction, and any friction you add chases away all but the most dedicated users -- and the most dedicated users are often the ones more likely to get entangled in some insane drama and try to burn the whole place to the ground.

It's a difficult problem. I've always wondered what it would actually cost to actually, properly moderate a reasonably sized forum if you paid a professional mod team real wages and gave them proper tools. Probably way more than we would guess.

[mystified5016]

No. A readme on GitHub that only says "documentation on discord" is an active push by the developers to contain everything within discord.

[chowells]

Way to miss the point entirely. GP was talking about why that happens. And yes, it's almost entirely due to going places that actually provide effective tools to deal with bad-faith participants.