Drive by negativity for niche communities can have a outsized chilling effect, moderation tools to help the smaller discussions grow would be useful here too.
If a smaller community has people who don’t like it, they can turn that small community into a place to be negative about what that community is trying to be.
So when people want to talk about that community, they go into the post, and they see negativity, and they’re less likely to participate. They don’t want to deal with the negativity, they don’t want to deal with the naysayers
Drive by negativity for niche communities can have a outsized chilling effect, moderation tools to help the smaller discussions grow would be useful here too.
I guess that’s the downside of being able to land on all with a topic posted to a niche community, which basically would never happen on reddit.
What do you mean? Sorry English isn’t my first language
If a smaller community has people who don’t like it, they can turn that small community into a place to be negative about what that community is trying to be.
So when people want to talk about that community, they go into the post, and they see negativity, and they’re less likely to participate. They don’t want to deal with the negativity, they don’t want to deal with the naysayers
Ah indeed, makes sense. Any recent example in mind?
https://beehaw.org/comment/3597805
Haha. I thought beehaw was all about being nice? What i heard, can’t see any of their stuff usually.
I think they try to be(e)!
Fortunately he got banned since then, but I agree