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Me, the Acorn admins/mods, and Acorn itself need your help.
Many of you know I want Acorn to be a safe place where people can do domain business without being insulted. And it seems we have managed to reshape Acorn in a clean, respectful environment (was the priority). .. though, not without a price for Acorn :/ .. 10000% - it’s equally important that Acorn stays a place where members can speak up about bad experiences, questionable behaviour, or wider industry problems without fear of being banned or named names.
And I’m really struggling (not a secret) with 1 thing: how do we return honest conversations, while keeping the Rule #1 without turning Acorn into a forum full of long “Terms of Service” that noone really reads?
How would you define the right line? If we moderate too hard, it feels like we’re shutting people down. .. and we are
.. If we moderate too lightly, threads can quickly become personal and toxic like an ugly swamp.
.. if you owned Acorn, how would you allow fair, constructive criticism?
And can you define, in 2 or 3 words, what crosses the line and should be removed quickly?
How to maintain a community that is both truthful and kind/safe? … some days I’m not sure if that balance is even possible.
There are issues that should be allowed to be raised. For example, the recent bomb Kalin dropped on Unstoppable Domains:
I tried covering it on DNForum too:
www.dnforum.com
Even though UD are my clients (for Domain Summit, and previously significant financial supporters of DNF), the story matters more - and people should be able to raise a question and/or share constructive criticism without being silenced (including by me).
Maybe Acorn needs a moderator for me firstly in my "clean park" vision?
Happy Monday all,
H
Many of you know I want Acorn to be a safe place where people can do domain business without being insulted. And it seems we have managed to reshape Acorn in a clean, respectful environment (was the priority). .. though, not without a price for Acorn :/ .. 10000% - it’s equally important that Acorn stays a place where members can speak up about bad experiences, questionable behaviour, or wider industry problems without fear of being banned or named names.
And I’m really struggling (not a secret) with 1 thing: how do we return honest conversations, while keeping the Rule #1 without turning Acorn into a forum full of long “Terms of Service” that noone really reads?
How would you define the right line? If we moderate too hard, it feels like we’re shutting people down. .. and we are
.. If we moderate too lightly, threads can quickly become personal and toxic like an ugly swamp... if you owned Acorn, how would you allow fair, constructive criticism?
And can you define, in 2 or 3 words, what crosses the line and should be removed quickly?
How to maintain a community that is both truthful and kind/safe? … some days I’m not sure if that balance is even possible.
There are issues that should be allowed to be raised. For example, the recent bomb Kalin dropped on Unstoppable Domains:
I tried covering it on DNForum too:
news - Kalin Starts a War with Unstoppable Domains
Just saw on X/Twitter a tweet by Kalin of seo.domains: This asks for even more reading, especially knowing Kalin in person as a highly intelligent person (also an International chess master) who always controls himself.. Asked Grok to do a summary on this highly sensetive topic where 2 sides...
www.dnforum.com
Even though UD are my clients (for Domain Summit, and previously significant financial supporters of DNF), the story matters more - and people should be able to raise a question and/or share constructive criticism without being silenced (including by me).
Maybe Acorn needs a moderator for me firstly in my "clean park" vision?
Happy Monday all,
H
