I myself was once a moderator for a gaming guild for three years. Heavy hand method only works when you deliver the message of "dont mess around".
When someone always try to control a conversation, it always end up worse than it is. It only encourage more trolls to spring up like weeds to make a point of "going against the system".
It also underline the darker tone of people who reports post of their personal political and social comfort, and confinement. Often it is political correctness that triggers them to report.
Apparently people are still making posts about "forbidden" and "politically incorrect" subjects on Baldur's gate 3 here or else where.
The real moderation is to keep it, step in when needed, and allow it to flow.
The cons of it is the exhausting amount of time and efforts needed to monitor it. I once monitored a sensitive topic for 8 hours a day for 3 months, until no one was going to say anything anymore and walk away with the message you cannot just say anything and get away.
Restrain is more valuable than overzealous reaction.
Then again it depend on the quality of the gamers as well. Today's people are more prone to cast their idiotic behaviours as if they rolled a critical 20 on their dice and expect no repercussion.
Given what I have seen on this forum and steam, 10% of the account would be gone within an hour, should I be the moderator.
Last edited by dutchmilk; 01/10/23 06:01 AM.
