I wish I could say that this issue is surprising, or that FA demonstrated strong community leadership or even just ethical moderation on the FA Forums and FA. But then, I'm banned from FA and cut off from the community of artists I expected to be supporting throughout the holidays because FA's approach to problems seems to be to punitively harm the whistleblowers.
I think part of the problem is the lack of stating community standards of conduct in positive terms. For instance, on the FA Forums, there's a Ten Commandments-like list of forbidden things, vaguely defined, and liberally, arbitrary, and capriciously interpreted for all sorts of magical moderation effects that seem mostly about cowing intellectualism, stifling community organization, and creating a safe space for misogyny and the most philistine anti-fandom alt-right ideological well-poisoning meme spreaders.
It's seemingly perverse because it's overtly anti-fandom, and it's dark fruit cultivated by the team quoting_mungo heads. And it's not as if the problems haven't been presented publically and privately ad nausium. There's been a real and system effort of neglect and tonedeaf antisocial anti-excellence leadership that is unbecoming of any fandom, especially ours, especially now when sufficiency would mean that lucid brilliance is essential.
I wish I could say that this issue is surprising, or that FA demonstrated strong community leadership or even just ethical moderation on the FA Forums and FA. But then, I'm banned from FA and cut off from the community of artists I expected to be supporting throughout the holidays because FA's approach to problems seems to be to punitively harm the whistleblowers.
I think part of the problem is the lack of stating community standards of conduct in positive terms. For instance, on the FA Forums, there's a Ten Commandments-like list of forbidden things, vaguely defined, and liberally, arbitrary, and capriciously interpreted for all sorts of magical moderation effects that seem mostly about cowing intellectualism, stifling community organization, and creating a safe space for misogyny and the most philistine anti-fandom alt-right ideological well-poisoning meme spreaders.
It's seemingly perverse because it's overtly anti-fandom, and it's dark fruit cultivated by the team quoting_mungo heads. And it's not as if the problems haven't been presented publically and privately ad nausium. There's been a real and system effort of neglect and tonedeaf antisocial anti-excellence leadership that is unbecoming of any fandom, especially ours, especially now when sufficiency would mean that lucid brilliance is essential.