A new beginning for our SM community.

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Originally Posted by dAnceguy117

yikes. here's my generic take on some of those issues.

motivation/commitment: those are effects rather than causes, imo. a thriving community will keep contributors coming back.

exclusiveness/elitism: pretty hard to make this problem disappear. every community will have its standards. diversity of notechart style, skill level, etc. should be encouraged, but it's tough to actually mandate this kind of thing.

abuse of power: sounds interesting. can I get an example? haha.

Of course. I stated the issues, not said they could all be solved. But it's just a list I made in 20 seconds.

You wanted some examples for abuse of power. Well to me it all boils down to not putting your personal grudges into your decisions. Abuse of power can be broken down to two things. Giving advantages to someone or going soft on someone.

Giving unfair advantage (within reason): You have a friend who recently joined. You're a moderator on a site, and you see someone trolling your friend on the forum. He gets upset because he doesn't know how to behave on a forum and how to handle troll posts, so he asks you to delete it. Would you? Have you done it for someone else?

Of course, sometimes these advantages are just for fun. So practical reasoning and common sense has to come into play. If your friend owns an arcade and he offered you to play every machine for free, wouldn't you? It's his arcade, and he pays for everything. But if you decided to give that advantage to someone else without his permission, that's where it's wrong. Of course, let's say his son walked in and you gave him the opportunity, would he really be mad? You always have to make some informed decisions, not everything is black and white.

Going soft: Your friend joins a forum you moderate, and he makes a post he knows was inappropriate. You know if an admin sees it, they'll temp ban him for a week. Do you delete it and risk the admin seeing it in the mod logs? Would you have done it for someone you didn't like?

I don't abuse power, whether people want to believe it or not. I've made decisions that I hated, but was better for the community. As for going soft?

I just temp banned yaboy 5 minutes ago for starting a thread titled penis. Will it make me hate him? No. Should he have done it on a forum where 12 year old female vocaloid fans are browsing? hell no. I don't care if he's cool with me, I would've banned any other person. I know him enough to know he posted it purposefully. It wasn't an accident.

I've stepped down to certain things, I've accepted people I don't like into projects, I've denied friends into projects, etc. It does ruin some friendships, but if a friend will take offense to a decision made for better of a community and not a friend then...maybe they aren't a good friend? Hm...

These are all real life skills by the way.