Mr. Morden
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« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2012, 04:17:32 AM » |
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The complaints about the 2012 board evolved over time. Early on, it was a less active board, but with a very distinct subsample of posters from the usual crowd that populates the rest of Atlas. Sort of like the What-If board, which has its own distinct board culture. However, the particular band of posters that inhabited 2012-land skewed more Republican than the rest of Atlas, presumably because there was a primary contest on the GOP side, but not the Dem. side.
When the regulars from the rest of Atlas ventured in, they'd complain about how people were being dumb and hackish (mostly on the GOP side, but there was also pbrower to help balance things out on the other side). That was the nature of the complaint. That the posters weren't very smart, and were being hackish. Not that they were being nasty, or doing anything that was actually infractable. So it was actually a relatively easy board to moderate.
Once we got into late 2011, however, the traffic started increasing quite a bit, there were more heated arguments, and a lot more posts requiring moderation. It became a bear to moderate, which is why BK, and later AndrewCT, were added as mods. But even with three of us, it was still a bear to moderate. There were more threads that degenerated into flame wars, and the tone was nastier.
2016 is currently pretty civil and easy to moderate, as the 2012 board was early on. However, I don't know if it's going to follow the same arc as the 2012 board or not. You're going to have primary contests on both sides, so there'll be more interest from Dems. Dems are the majority on Atlas as a whole, so you might see more interest from Atlas regulars, and the board won't seem as sealed off from the rest of the forum, as 2012 was early on.
Or maybe not. I don't know. We'll have to wait and see.
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