Comment by lovehashbrowns

2 years ago

Discord is particularly tough, depending on the type of community. I very briefly moderated a smaller community for a video game, and goodness was that awful. There was some exceptionally egregious behavior, which ultimately made me quit, but even things like small cliques. Any action, perceived or otherwise, taken against a "popular" member of that clique would immediately cause chaos as people would begin taking sides and forming even stronger cliques.

One of the exceptionally egregious things that made me quit happened in a voice call where someone was screensharing something deplorable (sexually explicit content with someone that wasn't consenting to the screensharing). I wouldn't have even known it happened except that someone in the voice call wasn't using their microphone, so I was able to piece together what happened from them typing in the voice chat text channel. I can't imagine the horror of moderating a larger community where various voice calls are happening at all times of the day.