User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-26213507-20160908213401/@comment-26440657-20160908231427

@ChristopherLeeGallant

Managing the place is not the issue, it's the users... It's like taking care of a paralytic hoping he can walk again someday. A lot of /d users are under-aged kids who often get themselves banned by saying their age out of the blue, you'd end up running a daycare where you won't even see the fruit of your work since they'd leave before they mature, you just deal with them everyday. Some of them don't even know a wiki exists and they think the app is a chat feature, not a forum for a wiki. They get upset at everything a moderator does and cause drama, there's always a threat of a revolt. A lot of them think they are lore masters / experts on games even though they are wrong on a lot of things, you cant even expect them to end up editing on the wiki, that's scary.

Of course they are being taught how to behave, how to edit if they wish to, what's right and wrong but there's only so much you can do to help them. We only had ONE moderator running the forum and it was enough for a year, but when Discussions started growing we had to get four people and still not enough. You can train monkeys until you can send them to space but that's not going to accomplish much... Specially since Discussions itself is a downgrade to forums.

Deleting all of their post history until they behave? WTH, If tyranny is the only solution then it's still not a pleasant solution. It's like letting Satan rule hell, it would still be hell and you'd be the devil. Sure, hope for the best and endure the suffering, positive attitude, right?