Illiterate Hypocrites

[ravan]

One nice, mellow community I am in, purely as a recreation, has turned into a hotbed of fanatics and hypocrites. No, it's not childfree.

When you decide to start a community, you have the freedom to set the rules your way. It's your community. But, once you publish those rules, not following them yourself is hypocrisy.

I loathe hypocrisy!!

It may be your right to piss in your own community, disregard your own rules, post uncapitalized crap diatribes in defense of fanatics and fools without the lj cut that your own rules require, but it is still HYPOCRISY, and pisses away whatever moral standing you have as a moderator. "Do as I say, not as I do" is bad for communities, folks.

If you want to change the rules, fine. If you want to note in the rules that the moderator will not be bound by the rules of the community, fine. But otherwise, there is no moderator exception without blatant, community destablizing, hypocrisy. Even a moderator exception rule is a bit hypocritical, but not nearly as bad. When joining the community I might find it amusing, and join anyway, or slimy, and not join.

On a side note: How many people actually read the community rules for communities they join here on LJ? I know I do.

Comments

[weofodthignen]

Hmm. I speed-read them, because I speed-read pretty much everything that comes up on screen in front of me. But they often bear little resemblance to what actually happens--like with urban_decay. Basically I join very few communities anyway--I prefer e-lists for that.

Marion idly wondering which one it is . . .

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