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The practical argument for closing the board is, I think, roughly:
There are increasingly few moderators active on Barbelith - if Mordant has gone, that's two more down this month. As such, it is harder to exercise any moderation over Barbelith. If people are just not able to correct typos, that's not so bad. but it also means that Barbelith is trending to a point where racist, anti-semitic, homophobic or just vile content is increasingly hard to remove from the board. This also means that letting people on is a progressively greater risk , as the only protection against e.g. porn spam or Nazi recruitment links is the people currently on board not having done it so far (and those who did having been removed). Since nobody except Tom can make moderators, and there aren't really many people left who should be moderators who aren't, and the same problem would continue to recur, it may be best to close Barbelith to posting while there are any barriers left. Or declare that one no longer cares about it and throw about the doors, but I think Tom would be responsible (legally and probably ethically) for whatever went on. |
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