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| Dec 26, 2025 at 12:34 | comment | added | roganjosh | The problem for me is, you're effectively turning up with a mop and broom just like I did. This problem is entirely of their making and now they want to make it worse. Why should we keep stepping up to take on more work every time? I don't mind doing more than my fair share but this OP is a step too far. As I said elsewhere, the statement is "We're tearing down all the perimeter walls but, don't worry, we'll give you bigger guns". I don't want that and we wouldn't need it if we just kill this idea. My last ditch attempt was to drop RO and let the Lobby spiral as it probably should have | |
| Dec 26, 2025 at 12:03 | history | edited | forest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2025 at 11:58 | comment | added | forest | @roganjosh We may not have anything to curate, but at least we can stop things from getting really out of control. At the very least, this post may serve to incriminate SE by showing that they were aware of the problem if some asshole in the future tries to groom a minor while SE mods sit by powerlessly. SE would not like to hear a court ask them "you opened the floodgates and knew of the risks, but didn't even bother to give moderators the tools to do something about it when they asked?". | |
| Dec 26, 2025 at 11:14 | comment | added | roganjosh | The other way to look at it is that the poor content streaming into the Lobby is precisely because there are no existing barriers for people to post already. That's why it doesn't make sense to just cause multiple other rooms to get this content. As much as it makes sense for SE mods to help - what exactly are you curating? What is the proportion of utter nonsense to valuable interactions that you have seen? Vast swathes of posts have to be removed. I gave up my RO status when the room became a dating site a few nights ago. | |
| Dec 25, 2025 at 1:34 | history | answered | forest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |