Yeah, fair point.

It's kind of shitty because if there aren't enough rules/rules lawyering some people just love pushing the line. (See all the almost identical meme spam on BS).

Like what determines a 'copycat' would just turn into a fight.

If we're allergic to rules/standards/thinking then everything is going to be spam. That's kind of a cardinal rule of the internet at this point.

the only thing/s i can think of as being an issue with moderated posting is that it's a volunteer mod position that they don't have enough mods/a mod on for dedicated posting times. that and while it might stop the issue of 'this is really close to that meme' it doesn't stop someone from socking up and posting ten memes. as long as they're 'different enough'. so you might still get a flood of memes whenever whatever mod goes on to approve/decline the memes. and then more arguments of how many memes can get posted, what memes aren't getting approved, potential infighting on 'they're suffocating/not allowing gen/smut/x memes mod bias boo' when at least this way, people can post all the shitty crap they want and there's a transparent place to post to complain about the copy memes and to get them taken down. when a mod goes. like the taboo meme currently up that is early from the 2 week posting but isn't down yet because whichever mod handles that hasn't gotten online to do that yet. but they just posted a mod post about 'make sure your repost is actually at the 2 week mark', so is that intentional or just dumbassery?

bs isn't a fully moderated comm, and that's just the sort of crap you get with an open public forum. all the gleeks get in along with the active happy types. personally, i'm all for more options. more comms. some heavily moderated. some not. some strictly porny. some gen. some mixed. idc. the mods on bs now aren't even the original mods. they had to go to denise to beg to take over the comm after the original mod fucked off and left it.

anyone but me remember those days?

idk i feel like with a mod team of 3-4 you could have this covered easily, like it wouldn't be time-consuming to just approve or delete - maybe at the beginning, but presumably once you've deleted "rate those pinky fingers" a few times, the "rate those pinky fingers" poster will get the hint

like of course they'd have to be people who'd want to handle that, but if they're not then they're not going to be modding this theoretically comm anyway

yeah the original mod was a BBC sherlock rper which is why she named it bakerstreet

she offered it to me once, before she fucked off, and I said no thx

not on a comm like bakerstreet, unless they had a queue, and then it would get stale and boring. do really contend with actual posting moderation, someone would have to be available at most/all hours. which means a handful of people. and the problem with that is the proprietary feeling that comes from that and in a comm like bs, there's no real proprietary rights. i post memes. there is someone i loathe that i avoid at all costs. any time i post a meme and they reply to it, i have a kneejerk reaction to delete their comment. i don't, because i'm not that much of a jerk, but the desire's there. that kind of entitlement can spread fast. we already have people banned on bs, for good reason. imagine someone with just a little less adultness joining the mod team and just banning/turning down memes from certain people 'because they can'.

that kind of behavior is perfectly fine in games, imo. you mod a game, you make the rules. but an open public comm? you have to be more lax than that.

not exactly. more like someone might have a legitimate beef with someone, but it's not like, ban worthy, but they opt to help mod and now that person's top levels just 'disappear' or they can't post a meme, or their account for certain characters are banned. it's really easy to abuse stuff in little increments. and the more it's done on a small scale, the easier it is to do on a larger one. and it might not even be a conscious thing. but there's more i guess acceptance is the right word for a mod being territorial over their game than there would be for any mod/helper being territorial over a public comm. especially one that's been around as long as bs has.

i guess it's a weird way of saying i have trust issues.

+1, exactly! i think it's really just that simple.