the usual suspects

[kathygnome]

Just to explain, yesterday I dropped by GP and saw that there's a massive cleanup going on, there's a bunch of new mods, and rules and everything else. What I found most amusing is that in at least one forum the rules have been posted next to the last set of rules since the last cleanup. I loved GP desperately. I'd love TS to be the kind of space that GP was. But I've seen these cleanups before. There's a lot of noise and the law is laid down. Then nothing changes. So I find it hard to believe they actually mean it. What it most reminds me of is Captain Renault's "round up the usual suspects."

Comments

[redwick.livejournal.com]

As much as I would like to, I can't go back to GP, even *if* they really did clean everything up. I was getting to be part of the problem there and I didn't much like that. :-/

[rebecca-s921.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that Kate A (Lilith) were recruited as a mod to help prune the forum. Whether this will be effective remain to be seen.

[invisible-gurl.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's right, she popped up with that nick briefly around summer sometime, didn't she? I *thought* that nick looked familiar...but looks like she deleted all the posts she made with it pre-Mod, lol.

[rebecca-s921.livejournal.com]

All the better to exert her discretionary dictatorial mod power over the GP masses with minimal personal repercussion.

[kathygnome.livejournal.com]

If I thought it was going to last past her winter vacation, I'd stand up cheering and go back. But I have just seen these "cleanups" come and go for far too often. Like I said, I think the most telling part of it is that there are two posts of rules, the new rules posted above the last set of rules that was posted back in October the last time everything went to hell.

You can only do that so many times before people simply lose faith.

To me it was never really an issue about "me" as much as it was about other people. Sometime in the fall I realized that I wasn't passing on the URL, particularly to younger transitioners, because it was such a cesspool. That was a bolt of lightning. I just wish we could attract a few more of the better posters to raise the level of discussion on TS.