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One nice, mellow community I am in, purely as a recreation, has turned into a hotbed of fanatics and hypocrites. No, it's not ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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.
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.
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Nope. It wouldn't have mattered whether it was PETA, Greenpeace or the Sierra Club. You still spent more of the post talking about how to advocate for animals, and why PETA wasn't so bad, than why people should follow the community rules and avoid name-calling.
Because kittypix has so many members is why I think it is a highly inappropriate forum for advocacy. You have everything from vegans to NRA members there, plus all political persuasions all around the world!