I've seen entire communities be unable to seek justice. :/
So have I. One moderator jumped on my case because I posted a Prairie Home Companion link in the sandbox on a forum I favored....It got so bad on this forum with the power hungry mods that people left in droves. Finally,one admin asked me why the place was starting to look like a ghost town...I told him in a very long, detailed pm. I left the website soon after and it eventually was made up of just the mods and their groupies. The website finally died and that was that.
I was part of this one forum at one point in time. These guys wanted to make the forum the "next big thing", with their only offering being that you could express yourself and use the site as a platform of free speech, without being censored (barring illegal content). What it ended up being was a group of power-abusing mods and admins trolling the very small user base very early on, driving people out before it even got the chance to grow into anything. From there, a few database mishaps and the entire forums getting lost on more than on occasion lead to everyone leaving except for the mods and admins themselves. Anybody who was friends with them didn't remake their accounts after everything had been lost.
Moderators can make or break a system, and it really comes down to whether they're lax about thing and intervene appropriately, or if they're in it for a power trip.
So have I. One moderator jumped on my case because I posted a Prairie Home Companion link in the sandbox on a forum I favored....It got so bad on this forum with the power hungry mods that people left in droves. Finally,one admin asked me why the place was starting to look like a ghost town...I told him in a very long, detailed pm. I left the website soon after and it eventually was made up of just the mods and their groupies. The website finally died and that was that.
I was part of this one forum at one point in time. These guys wanted to make the forum the "next big thing", with their only offering being that you could express yourself and use the site as a platform of free speech, without being censored (barring illegal content). What it ended up being was a group of power-abusing mods and admins trolling the very small user base very early on, driving people out before it even got the chance to grow into anything. From there, a few database mishaps and the entire forums getting lost on more than on occasion lead to everyone leaving except for the mods and admins themselves. Anybody who was friends with them didn't remake their accounts after everything had been lost.
Moderators can make or break a system, and it really comes down to whether they're lax about thing and intervene appropriately, or if they're in it for a power trip.