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by ceejayoz 112 days ago
Just remember every time you tweak the defaults, the 90% of your site owners using those defaults suddenly have a significant shift in their moderation policy that they are themselves unaware of.

(I moderated a vBulletin forum in the 1990s. This shit gets really, really, really hard, and no one is ever really happy with it.)
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NickHodges0702 112 days ago
Sorry -- should have been more clear: We are shifting the defaults on the demo site, not on respectify itself.

Thanks for a great point, though. Finding the best defaults will be very important, and we can't tweak it like that very often if at all.

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NickHodges0702 112 days ago
>>(I moderated a vBulletin forum in the 1990s. This shit gets really, really, really hard, and no one is ever really happy with it.<<

I feel that. I used to moderate the Object Pascal Compuserve forum. That was hard enough!

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ceejayoz 112 days ago
This one was for gamers.

I’m pretty sure we created a few budding lawyers out of some high schoolers.

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