Gregory's Server@darius Seth is a bag of bees pretending to be a person, but getting the boot without any warning or explanation is pretty bad community management. Of course, we only have one side of the story, so maybe someone did reach out and he missed it and is now just going for maximum drama. Who knows.
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 @darius Yeah it's hard to see through all his bluster and ego, and I certainly wouldn't want him on my server, but he's at least raising a valid criticism. Not because he's special, but any member who has not obviously broken a rule is owed some notification about a permanent action like that. At the very least, explain why the action was taken so people don't walk away with the wrong idea (like that posting to other services is breaking a rule).  @fraying Yeah. I am sure he was on a large server that needs to do better by its users. And also....... it's a big yes, and. I think that if his heart was right this would've been smoothed over really quickly. @darius Totally. I'm just always looking to learn a community lesson, even from public freakouts from ridiculous people. I'd bet money there's a message somewhere from an admin going "are you really Seth Abramson?" that he missed or ignored, and then the admin gave the account the boot when he didn't respond because they assumed it was a fake. @fraying That seems probable, yeah. There are definitely lessons to take from any community management incident. @darius Best way to learn! Or, at least, a missed opportunity to not learn from them. |
@fraying This comment from him is illustrative, I think. Specifically the idea that he is owed certain treatment
(I also agree that the larger servers certainly need better community management, and that admins should in most cases proactively provide reasoning where it would not be dangerous to do so)