They “moderate” AskScience and AskHistorians while having absolutely no interest, knowledge, talent or skill whatsoever on those fronts — which I see as pretty corrosive and counterproductive in terms of community building.
Fully agreed with you that I don’t think they’re malicious in intent, but Dinkleberry’s functional impact on this website is overwhelmingly negative in my book.
Yeah, definitely not bringing anything to those communities.
Mind you, nobody can bring anything to them without building the kind of network of actual professionals together, and having access to thorough and capable mod tools. The lack of the tools means the scientists and historians are absolute not going to put in the effort that made the reddit versions of those community names so useful.
Kinda think they’re just a kid with intermediate english and too much time on their hands. Its annoying but they dont make a million alt accounts so theyre easy to block.
Also for comms like those the fediverse doesn’t really have the appropriate people on the platform for every niche topic.
They “moderate” AskScience and AskHistorians while having absolutely no interest, knowledge, talent or skill whatsoever on those fronts — which I see as pretty corrosive and counterproductive in terms of community building.
Fully agreed with you that I don’t think they’re malicious in intent, but Dinkleberry’s functional impact on this website is overwhelmingly negative in my book.
Yeah, definitely not bringing anything to those communities.
Mind you, nobody can bring anything to them without building the kind of network of actual professionals together, and having access to thorough and capable mod tools. The lack of the tools means the scientists and historians are absolute not going to put in the effort that made the reddit versions of those community names so useful.
Kinda think they’re just a kid with intermediate english and too much time on their hands. Its annoying but they dont make a million alt accounts so theyre easy to block.
Also for comms like those the fediverse doesn’t really have the appropriate people on the platform for every niche topic.
Y’know, I hadn’t actually considered that possibility, but you might well be on the money there. Thanks for the charitable lens.