It's nice to receive praise like this. Not just to inflate my own ego, but because I do try to make this a good place. Everything from deck-building advice to general chatter. I'm always coming up with new ideas for topics to discuss. Of course, you guys only ever see the good ideas. I frequently start writing a new thread and delete it halfway after thinking "no one wants to hear about this". Most recently it was a thread about how the cEDH meta has changed with the banning of
Flash. I don't really think that interests anyone here.
I've also had some stunningly bad ideas. For a while I was thinking about making a thread in off-topic called "Grudge Match". If ever two Deckstats users get into a heated argument, I could just move all of their comments to Grudge Match, leaving the original thread unscathed and without me having to
censor anyone by just deleting the comments. The users would get the argument out of their system, and then could return to being a responsible user.
I had this line of thought for about a minute before my brain said "Hey stupid, that's a terrible idea!" The point of site moderation is to de-escalate conflicts, not actively encourage them. The quality of content on sites is directly linked to how much moderation there is. Too much
censorship and you limit people's willingness to post. Too little and you get massive toxicity.
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