Originally posted by Gareth Coles:
This is a suggestion that a bunch of people have brought up, with a whole bunch of reasons. This issue exists in order to keep track of this particular suggestion, and to encompass the reasoning from both sides.
Rationale: For
- Many of our users love to post memes and shitpost, and it can overtake
#off-topic - having somewhere sectioned off for it might help with that problem
- User retention can be a big deal in some cases - if users are going elsewhere to post memes, they're spending less time with us
That's all I could come up with, feel free to comment if you have more.
Rationale: Against
Through experience with servers that do have this type of channel, I can make the following observations:
- Channels like this actually tend to cause more spill-over of meme spam in other channels
- Channels like this attract trolls and other types of user that tend to break rules and make people uncomfortable
- Channels like this tend to attract a much larger volume of NSFW/NSFL/provocative/sketchy material, most of which is likely to be banned in our community
- For some reason, people often feel like these channels shouldn't fall under the normal scope of the community's ruleset, and kick up more of a stink than usual when they're disciplined for breaking it
Additionally, we came up with the following ourselves:
- We need to moderate all of our channels - a memes/shitposting channel is incredibly unpleasant to moderate, with possessive users and a trend towards inappropriate posts
- Channels of this type tend to attract a lot of user attention, we would need a much larger moderation team to even begin to deal with that
- A channel of this type simply doesn't suit our server or its subject - we are primarily a server about Python programming, and we don't really want people posting a bunch of memes - it's really not in our interests and doesn't help further the mission of the community
Originally posted by Gareth Coles:
This is a suggestion that a bunch of people have brought up, with a whole bunch of reasons. This issue exists in order to keep track of this particular suggestion, and to encompass the reasoning from both sides.
Rationale: For
#off-topic- having somewhere sectioned off for it might help with that problemThat's all I could come up with, feel free to comment if you have more.
Rationale: Against
Through experience with servers that do have this type of channel, I can make the following observations:
Additionally, we came up with the following ourselves: