My attempt to clean up the lounge backfired big time

I picked up how to block users who spam links all day. Now the main channel has no activity at all. It's so frustrating because I was trying to help. I guess too much filtering ruins the chat vibe.

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chen.jamie1mo ago

Ever see those old forums that required admin approval for every single post? I joined one for fixing up vintage radios, and the queue was so backed up it took three days for a simple capacitor question to go through. By then the guy had already sold his whole project for parts.

the_elliot1mo ago

Remember my buddy who tried to moderate his Discord server way too hard. He set up a bot to auto delete any message with a link, thinking it would stop spam. The problem was his whole community shared cool articles and music links every day. Within a week the most active channel turned into a ghost town, just a couple people saying "hey." He had to undo everything and apologize. Tbh he learned the same thing, that killing all the noise can accidentally kill the conversation too.

benclark1mo ago

My old gaming group actually ran better after we banned all links. Some communities really do need those strict rules to stop arguments before they start. It just depends what the group is for, music sharing is totally different from competitive play.