Flutterby™! : people who don't like a space

RT Dan moved to mstdn.social @ifixcoinops@mastodon.social

I've run a big text adventure for thirteen years (at one point briefly it was the biggest text adventure!) and if there's one thing I've about managing a big online community in that time that I'd choose to pass on as a warning to others, it's this: remove the people who don't like being there.

Some folks just don't like the place, or they liked it once and they don't anymore, and that's fine.

You'd think they'd just go somewhere else, and most do, but some don't, and those folks are AWFUL.

The rest of the thread talks about this a bit more, about how if you don't give the people who don't like a space an out they'll find the other people who don't like a space, and...

I think there are some good lessons here, both in "be proactive about removing ourselves from spaces we don't like", and in how a lot of social media, like NextDoor, is about finding ways to get the whiners together and amplify their voices.