I don't think making ten threads in /f/memer and /f/meta_ and wherever else is productive, and its a far shot from /f/mediation of any sort. It seems like its just harmful to the site to have half the front page be about a conflict between two users, especially when its usually just two-to-five words spam threads.
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lori OP wrote
Speaking of, it looks like /f/mediation hasn't been used in half a year - it clearly needs to be warmed up. Though, I suppose its difficult to do if neither party initiates, and especially if one or both don't want to participate in mediation. I just know that having fights take up nearly-100-comment threads of 4 users total and 15 threads by 2 users isn't a good solution and just results in a butting of heads until the less resilient party leaves - which isn't sustainable, especially for a smaller community like this.
I guess I'm pointing out problems without offering solutions, which is unhelpful in itself and something I try to avoid, but I'm only drawing blanks and I'm curious to hear if anyone else has ideas.
ziq wrote
I don't think f/mediation ever really worked. Can't think of a case where one or both sides didn't end up ragequitting.
It might be more useful to do forced disengagement 1 week cool-off periods instead - if arguments are monopolizing the whole site. If one or both parties breaks the peace, they'd get a week ban.
The only problem is if the admins get involved, then we end up having everyone on both sides pissed off at us for trying to keep the peace and they all end up quitting out of spite.
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ziq wrote (edited )
historically, no one who has gotten a week ban has ever come back, except to delete their account
ppl can't deal with social rejection
lori OP wrote
The disengagement idea sounds like a good one to me - if they quit out of spite, chances are that would have happened if they continued fighting anyway.
rot wrote
we could combine /f/trolldissection and /f/mediation since we use them the same anyway
ziq wrote
I'll delete the f/meta_ threads since they're off topic for that forum.