https://youtu.be/67WWrtWvxFw @WOODY

We need context.

Silence is golden I guess

But duct tape is silver

Xd

even better, tape them mouths shut, silence

Still, i will be here for the chaos, assuming that actually happens. Sorry for the debbie downer, but Ive seen it happen pleanty so best of luck to the mod and future mods

@balticnapo max raises a good point in that video, but you are missing the point. The point is not whether or not the rules are objective, the point is that we should be striving to get as close as possible to an objective set of rules, and since this is a discord server linked directly to Tim, it shouldn't be that hard to find a set of rules that we agree on the necessity of, because we are likely coming from a similar point of principle, i.e. something close to the principles of freedom of speech and free discussion. Keeping that in mind, that is what we should design the rules to protect.

Well, ill leave that to bruce and tim to discuss

also, a lot of the point of that video is that ais are now determining what people see online and catering specifically to their biases.

i.e. the ais are designed to cater for maximum engagement rather than maximum objectivity and truth.

which can lead to the exact opposite of this

Lol, well, Tim has done a really good job at explaining issues with some laws. I am sure hed have little issue with writing up rules for a small discord server.

Well, small as of now

yeah, but as with all things, its better to do some forward planning with some kind of vision, because that increases the likelihood of you achieving that vision, so I'm just asking the mods to think about what they want to see on this server and how they are going to achieve that.

I just want to make shitty puns.

Like when the inevitable chan raid happens, I want to yell out pools closed.

lol

yeah but you aren't a mod so your goal may be different to the mods 😃

Every time I'm granted power on a forum/channel/whatever, the first thing I do is I ban myself

Because if I've got the power to ban people, why not start with the worst offender?

Im only an admin on one server, really small one with double digits (like 50). But I do fuck all there.

Back when I was in scanlation (on IRC) I was an operator on several channels and I was admin on one, but that was mostly because the group's leader let their channel lapse and I reclaimed it for them

I think the biggest channel I was in back then was 75 people

@Bruce @Timcast another suggestion: set up a moderation bot to help deal with minor moderation issues that occur often (role management is generally a good thing for bots)

I'm aware that mee6 has a slowmode

I'm familiar with it

@WOODY Except for the part where you have to figure out what permissions to give the bot so that it can do everything for you

it will also help if and when a raid occurs

you just make a role for the bot

Yeah, most Discord bots have anti-raid utilities

its not too hard

The bot I use didn't have good documentation around what permissions it needed, so it took me a few days to get everything right

use a different bot then? theres plenty of bots around for all sorts of things.

I got one bot set up right. Why would I switch to another bot and go through another potential headache?

Emily and I are going to head to Montreal ina few days and then Detroit if you have any story suggestions

How bout a channel for that

this is the newsroom channel

Maybe you should make another text channel for general discussion so that the distinction is more apparent

Oh so shitposting is the general?

@Kori Tainaka I think <#398973785426100234> is for shitposting