Classic Doc. Geared up and ready to start a war with half story in his head.
Let me preface this with an apology and an explanation. First and foremost, I still didn't mean to pick deliberately at anyone specific and especially not Mark. I think it's safe to say that he's probably the main reason this site doesn't arse over and collapse into the dirt. I posted last night when I was tired and had a bunch of other minor shit piling up; this was the ridiculous straw that broke the camel's back. Ultimately it could have been solved with a PM in the right place, so for deliberately stirring up shit, I sincerely apologise. Things were disappearing without warning. With reference to earlier comments, too, this isn't the first and only time I'd seen it happen and not just concerning my own comments, so without knowing Mark was trying to save his busted hand a bit of trouble I was free to conjure all manner of conspiracy about what was going on behind the scenes.
(Seriously, though, Mark. What is it with people and their hands lately? I know three people - you make four - who have seriously injured a finger or hand in the last two days. What's everybody suddenly got against their digits? I smell an M. Night Shyamalan movie in the works. Fingers crossed for you, chief... no joke intended.)
That being said, after deliberating on whether to PM all this to Mark first or to post it, I made the choice to post it publicly because I have a twisted sense that it'll actually result in a net positive. When Mark mentions my tendency to throw gas on the fire? I also like to throw out the baby with the bath water, smash the fly with the sledgehammer and other metaphors for going in full throttle, usually at the expense of the moment. This is, I think, a discussion that ultimately needs to be happening somewhere. It's probably one that'd work far better on a forum or similar, but we do what we can with what we've got.
Which brings me to Mark's point about inactive mods. That's exactly what I meant about the likes of those who really shouldn't be on that list. There's names I see cropping up regularly going 'Bumped!' or 'Fixed tags!' and props to them. As I said already, I've done volunteer positions online before and it's a thankless, grinding job against what seems like the tidal wave of inhumanity that people can drum up against an unseen force they believe is set against them. But if it feels as though you're dragging along dead weight into that task, too, it might be time to tap the glass, see who wakes up and flush the goldfish that aren't swimming, y'know?
I think WTK hits the nail on the head with a couple of points. The 'better user interface' may be a pie in the sky, though - there's limitations to how far you can push a booru setup - but it may be worth spitballing to see what could be included. Tag blacklist rather than filters has been on a few people's mutant wishlists for a while (mine included) so, without wanting to sound petty, I am genuinely curious about what it would take to implement something like that.
Coding costs money and Giantessbooru is free to use. There's a weird overlap here! Has a donation button been considered? I know I've definitely gotten more than a cup of coffee's worth of entertainment out of this place over the almost five years I've been signed up - usually from the comments section, but I digress...
Finally, that code of conduct. It wasn't until I wanted to scream and shout and throw a tantrum that I realised there is nothing official in place to stop me calling, say, iswear a 'bitch-ass jive punk' if I wanted to. Obviously it's not a screaming priority that needs to be put into place immediately, but anywhere there's a bunch of people getting together with words on the internet I think there's a strong case for a visible, accessible list of clear and easily interpreted rules to refer to when you want to grab someone and toss them into the volcano.
tl;dr whoops, but also not whoops for different reasons.
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