Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

i am only still a member of moderation in one place on the internet - a discord server for a small gaming publication. there are times now that i feel ashamed of having such a visible role, even if my presence has been nothing but good for that server.

after last year? it makes me feel like a target. sure, i haven't had death threats, i haven't been doxxed (yet). but there are people i can't talk to ever again, places i don't dare show my face. and i know the internet is a small place.

i always used to believe that the enforcement needed to be "users first" - they needed presence, they needed to be helpful in things besides arguments and literally illegal activities, build the trust with the normally-privileged user base by being good citizens. of course, reputation has a way of tanking when it's one mistake.

far be it from me to say that 4chan had the right idea for *anything*, but maybe keeping the mod staff's identities heavily under wraps has its advantages in the 2020s.

or worse, of course. sooooo much worse.

in order to not have to put a CW on this, i'm gonna put this as vaguely as possible: it sucks that there are certain infractions that *NEED* to be acted on ASAP with zero delays or time spent questioning or investigating. for some problems, there can be no time spent to wait and see how a situation develops. for some problems, nothing short of immediately, permanently blasting the user is acceptable, and anything less can and *will* get the mod staff yelled at.

except. they get yelled at anyway

i wonder, sometimes, if hearing news about moderation decisions - especially ones that the public perceives as being especially poor, or have poor messaging/transparency - will ever *NOT* give me a fit of anxiety.

is this what it's like to have trauma? am i just not going to ever get past those chapters of my own life as a former moderator?

christ on a bike. if ever there was a profession in which a person can do no right...

I don't think this pro wrestler guy is in the game either.

I have not been giving you all nearly enough golf game content. So here is a GameCube game. I'm told this one is really more like a Hot Shots Golf clone than anything, and that this is the least fitting cover art for that. (Hell, I thought it was gonna be like Outlaw Golf.)

It is finally done, Turn of a Friendly Card has been liberated from Wordpress and laboriously converted back to standard HTML+CSS. https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/friendlycard/index.html

I wrote most of this in 2017, but a lot of posts have been updated with more recent thoughts and factual corrections.