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Comment by okasaki

6 months ago

Why not hand it over to someone else who would take the risk?

Seems a bit megalomaniacal.

"I'm not interested in doing this any more. Therefore I'll shut it down for everyone"

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wccrawford  6 months ago

Because then they're responsible, at least socially, for the things the new admin does.

This way, people have been given plenty of advanced notice and can start their own forums somewhere instead. I'm sure each of the 300 subforums already has some people running them, and they could do the above if they actually cared.

I find it hard to believe someone will take over 300 forums out of the goodness of their hearts and not start making it worse eventually, if not immediately.

  • throw646577  6 months ago

    > Because then they're responsible, at least socially, for the things the new admin does.

    Nonsense.

    • wccrawford  6 months ago

      If you hand someone a ton of power and they abuse it, you can expect, at the very least, the people affected by that abuse to blame you for handing it to the wrong person.

      And since social media works the way it does, you can also expect a ton of unaffected people to also pick up their pitchforks and join in without having any real clue what's going on.

      And that's assuming there isn't some law somewhere that really does put you on the hook for it.

      300 forums is a lot of power.

      It makes a lot more sense to expect the sub-admins of those forums to start their own communities elsewhere than for just hand power to a single person over all of them.

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