My experience has generally been that if you try to have a conversation in an unmoderated environment, there is a very small percentage of people who enjoy derailing other people’s conversations. Could be just posting giant images or whatever. And it doesn’t take a high percentage to derail conversations.
There are places that are more-hands-off that do have communities. I guess 4chan, say – not the same thing, but there are certainly people who like that.
But, in any event, if you want to have a zero-admin, zero-moderator discussion, you can do it. Set up an mbin/lemmy/piefed instance. State that your instance rules are “anything goes”. Then start a community on it and say that you have no rules and give it a shot.
I tend to favor a probably-more-hands-off policy than many, but even with that, I think that there are typically gonna be people who are just going to try to stop users from talking to each other.
Well, it depends on what you’re aiming for.
My experience has generally been that if you try to have a conversation in an unmoderated environment, there is a very small percentage of people who enjoy derailing other people’s conversations. Could be just posting giant images or whatever. And it doesn’t take a high percentage to derail conversations.
There are places that are more-hands-off that do have communities. I guess 4chan, say – not the same thing, but there are certainly people who like that.
But, in any event, if you want to have a zero-admin, zero-moderator discussion, you can do it. Set up an mbin/lemmy/piefed instance. State that your instance rules are “anything goes”. Then start a community on it and say that you have no rules and give it a shot.
I tend to favor a probably-more-hands-off policy than many, but even with that, I think that there are typically gonna be people who are just going to try to stop users from talking to each other.
Yes trolls.
But instead of having an admin manage them for us we could have tools for managing them ourselves. That’s an option.
So the alternative to having an admin is not just chaos. Not at all.