Saidit is pretty young. But it has potential to grow. Perhaps the KIA community should organize a bit to proactively secure some fandoms.

submitted by tabletobGamingFan from (self.KotakuInAction)

I hesitate to suggest this because I personally lack the time to follow through on the effort. Yet opportunities here seem quite critical and I am wondering if perhaps there are others who do have the time and inclination.

One of things that killed reddit for me was that every hobby community on it was obviously modded by teams with heavy sjw mentality - such teams choked off many a community years before the admins got heavy handed.

I would expect that it's very likely for there to be a migration soon. Looking through saidit's list of subs, almost none of the hobby stuff is present.

Imo, hobby related forums despite being relatively small communities are actually the most enduring ones and in the long term they can heavily influence their platform.

KIA originally started out as a place to discuss erosion of various hobbies - but on saidit we, right now have the chance to at least stake out some of those niches.

Because I have a suspicion, that given the level of organization the sjw mod teams displayed on reddit, soon as saidit shows up on the radar there is going to be a rush to secure certain names for subs and the first one to stake their claim get to set the initial tone for each community.

It might be paranoid, but giving the coming US election and just looking at how heated politics are all over the world these days, I kind of doubt any platform will get a chance to grow organically in this decade.

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[–]magnora7Saidit Admin 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Saidit's real value is in stuff that's basically banned for no reason on reddit because of mod over-reach, so if you find recently-disaffected communities, they're often the most receptive to the idea of a new website. Just keep simply dropping links to saidit.net in places where people are looking for alternatives, that's all it takes.

[–]tabletobGamingFan[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

my point was that if you do that without actually starting the sub on saidit, there is nothing stopping the mods from reddit from making an account on saidit, creating a copy of the sub and continuing a very similiar style of moderation here. after that, it doesn't matter if people come over - they will quickly run into same bullshit. Maybe slightly tuned down at first by saidit's more explicit moderation policy, but i doubt the owners of this startup have the time to investigate and follow up on every violation by mods.

the first one to get make the sub, gets to be the first mod and make all the starting rules etc..

[–]magnora7Saidit Admin 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

but i doubt the owners of this startup have the time to investigate and follow up on every violation by mods.

You'd be surprised. When the livelihood of the website hinges on the mods not creating little fiefdoms, I'm willing to put in the time to enforce the mod rules. We've already kicked out quite a few mods for breaking saidit mod rules. I refuse to let it get corrupted the same way reddit did.

[–]tabletobGamingFan[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

that is heartening to hear.

[–]Elvis_Presley 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes!

We must secure the existence of our fandoms and the future of our hobbies.

[–]wail 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's worthwhile acknowledging that Reddit is increasingly controlled by bad actors, whether those are corporate advertisers, motivated political actors, or simply mentally unhinged individuals. I created s/UnrealTournament as a refuge from the mentally unbalanced (and likely bribed by Epic Games) mod team of r/UnrealTournament.

[–]Tarrock 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Or maybe advertisers should be contacted.

[–]rblake 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Someone invade Gallifrey !