Illiterate Hypocrites

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.

Community Crap, part Deux

Well, the flame fest in the idiot community has kept on. One person came right out and said "nazi" when I referred to white supremacists as an example of fanatics. The personal attacks on me have been almost amusing, but pathetic. Others say that they think it's fine for moderators to break their own rules, and that if I don't approve I should leave. Another justifies blowing up buildings for the sake of environmental causes. And, finally, a person justifying the moderator violating common courtesy and community rules said, in the same post <whine>"can't we all just get along"</whine>

What a pile of kiddie wankers. They aren't even as good as the dregs of the old alt.pagan, or soc.religion.paganism

Feh. What the real irony is that it is a community for pictures, not ranting, advocacy, or debate.