The other day on the niche reddit I still check in on one post hit the upvote jackpot and got frontpaged, a picture with Elon and Rogan relevant to the forum (double hated now by the alt left).
Thousands of the most vile, hateful comments you could image that break every basic rule of decorum. I could easily see any forum with one or two moderators just nuking the thread to be done with it. The hate mob and bots don't add any value to a niche forum full of people who specifically sought it out and the longer the post is up the more trolls will spread into other posts and linger.
There could be just like say 1000 people/bots that open frontpage threads and dump their twitter-esque sewage on it and ruin the entire site. Wouldn't take a lot of fanatics.
The lesson is you shouldn't let people comment on frontpage posts who aren't subscribed regulars. When they click "save comment" put a timer that says the comment can be posted if they click again in 30 minutes and enforce it serverside. If they really, really want to keep a tab open that long it's probably a valuable comment or a bot (and if they do this regularly it's a bot detection signal). Same thing for subscribe.
The other day on the niche reddit I still check in on one post hit the upvote jackpot and got frontpaged, a picture with Elon and Rogan relevant to the forum (double hated now by the alt left).
Thousands of the most vile, hateful comments you could image that break every basic rule of decorum. I could easily see any forum with one or two moderators just nuking the thread to be done with it. The hate mob and bots don't add any value to a niche forum full of people who specifically sought it out and the longer the post is up the more trolls will spread into other posts and linger.
There could be just like say 1000 people/bots that open frontpage threads and dump their twitter-esque sewage on it and ruin the entire site. Wouldn't take a lot of fanatics.
The lesson is you shouldn't let people comment on frontpage posts who aren't subscribed regulars. When they click "save comment" put a timer that says the comment can be posted if they click again in 30 minutes and enforce it serverside. If they really, really want to keep a tab open that long it's probably a valuable comment or a bot (and if they do this regularly it's a bot detection signal). Same thing for subscribe.