Babies Born ~ September 2007 #63

[AnyDream]

MP, as best I can tell there has been leakage between BB and FB, there has been an outcry about the way the mods are modding, the discontent has been fomenting (love that word) in FB land & on other forums, some mods were stood down (Inanna and Spring Angel) over an unspecified "serious breach" (reading between the lines, I think someone might've shared private BB information elsewhere?) and they declared they were leaving BB, and a number of other people who were outraged over it (and/or the way it was handled) also left in a mass protest. Since then trouble has continued to brew and a few days ago Maz was banned for life (for ??), provoking another outcry. With a bit more trouble thrown in this week by someone posting someone's elses comments from FB here on BB.

IMO, all of this would have been avoided if people just paid the rudimentary courtesy of keeping each forum's business to that forum, I find it in appalling taste to ***** about happenings on one forum on another forum, kwim? Add to that people have not been protecting their anonymity with FB-BB-other forum leakage, and you know everyone wants to be right, don't they? And some people thrive on drama.

There seems to be an expectation when you come online that your subjective experience/opinion will be validated, I think that's what makes forum life so addictive, there is always someone there to agree with you, kwim? And so when people don't agree, for whatever reason, and you're expecting personal validation, suddenly it's a personal slight. And that's when it all gets so fraught, and the game playing begins.

Anyway, a whole group has left BB, presumably to take their tea party to another online venue (where presumably the mods mod differently or less, or it's the alternative venue where ppl go when they want to discuss BB's goings on?) and BB is going through the last burping unsettled stages of the purge.

That's the MD potted summary, I could have the wrong end of the stick totally. I have no idea which party is right or wrong or who has valid grievances or not, but there are a lot of upset people. Most of it the drama has taken place elsewhere on the net. At the end of the day I have my little Sept mummies thread family which is far too valuable to me to want to endanger it by getting involved in the drama.