Rot in the forum

[Iris-Grimoire]

Can't speak for this specific situation, but Discord does breed that a little. It's a forum where messages get lost really easily and conversations can disappear in minutes. That gives people the impression that anything they say will get forgotten so they don't need a filter, but they don't notice that it doesn't mean nobody's going to read it or that venting too much might become addictive.

A forum I'm a regular on had to institute a rule against gossiping on its discord because it was really getting out of hand. People would discuss the behavior of users there, then take that grudge back to the forum, and the user who's completely out of the subject would get confused and frustrated with the responses. It's really tempting to go on the venting area and go 'ugh does this user need to be so mean' but it's easy to fall down that trap and start talking about everyone... And not taking it to the mods if there's really a problem happening.

[AceRagz]

I don't really know which discord servers are being talked about, but I would never try to start following people through the web incognito for the sole reason on listening on conversations I'm not part of. This kind of behavior would be out of the line, harassment on my part and also kind of creepy.

Not sure what Discords these are either because this is all new news to me. But totally agree with the sentiment that it isn't the Tapas forum mods jobs and that it would be very creepy and abusive to spy.

I mean we are talking some Big Brother 1984 stuff here if I open a Discord for my comic and have a bad day and vent and get banned for saying something on an unrelated platform.

[spicy_sweets]

Yeah, I figured
My bad for not clarifying ヾ(｡>﹏<｡)ﾉﾞ✧*。

[skicoak]

I don't really know which discord servers are being talked about, but I would never try to start following people through the web incognito for the sole reason on listening on conversations I'm not part of. This kind of behavior would be out of the line, harassment on my part and also kind of creepy.

I don't know who's suggesting that particular course of action but as a hypothetical (because I was never told the specific individuals involved in my cases) what would your opinion/course of action be for individuals that, in discords, that were planning to take advantage of forum rules/ their influence to attempt to chase other forum members off?

[SleepingPoppy]

I hope it's clear I say that in jest? But my point is I didn't bring it up in relation to the discord thing at all, but in other conversations about other topics.

[mariusthered]

so pleased you got to read this thread today, I have always found you to be a very professional person in your approach to being a Mod and you have my greatest respect. In all honesty it is something I would not do ever if they paid me, I had enough of that sort of thing in the old days of the msn chat rooms (with the golden hammer of get out!)

as for the names of the mods, I copied and pasted that directly from the thing stuck to the top of this forum (so better tell the boss it needs a revamp!)

[skicoak]

I hope it's clear I say that in jest?

See... That's not really a statement .

Yeah, I don't stress your ribbing me about it...I think you also called me it when I said Tapas strengthened/fixed the tagging system to meet Apple's TOS requirements regarding a mechanism to flag creators using their own creator generated tags......hmmmmmm.

[mariusthered]

i have removed that bit now , as i said it was a bad idea and unfair of me saying it.

[AceRagz]

Its alright man we all have bad ideas time to time.

[SleepingPoppy]

No one said conspiracy theories can't turn out to be right! ;D

[spicy_sweets]

Everytime I see this title I think of literal corpses and mold
thanks

[vothnthorvaldson]

Same but with plants.
I have a mycology and plant pathology training.
Seeing the word 'rot' triggers species determination frenzy.

[mariusthered]

i was just thinking of decaying wood , guess this proves the point of how words can mean different things to different people.

[JRHoch]

Congrats on getting first quote!

@vothnthorvaldson I knew you'd bring up "species determination frenzy." Sadly, it was only a matter of time.

[spicy_sweets]

It's prolly because one of my wips involves zombie
plus I enjoy reading horror xD

[vothnthorvaldson]

I'll dedicate a Phytophthora taqsim to you

[JRHoch]

There's just no stopping you is there?

[bakasama25]

Eh, I've been to worse places like 4chan and TvTropes forums.

[ajcrwl]

in the words of the greatest author alive

[GesuGesu]

I think most of the gossip on the forums themselves are instigated or started by the problem children in the first place.

I admit I can talk shit privately in discord servers, but rarely is it targeted at a single person in particular. Plus, I think I don't have enough mind to really think about the forums in that manner.

I think the occasional outburst of crazy and salt on here is great. It's my source of entertainment