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Originally Posted by Rickypt
Definitely ironic but not surprising to me. I've learned in my years of work in "social justice" that people who fight power and then get into power start acting just like the people in power that they fought against in the first place. My first experience with this was when we unionized our workplace and the union leaders starting acting just like the ahole managers we unionized against.
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I swear, somebody should do a social study on this. My Mom saw the same exact crap happen when she worked as a volunteer for the Cub Scouts. Eventually the Pack she was a part of went "out of business." It got past the point of no return and people left like rats deserting - well yeah, THAT whole thing. There were warning signs. (In both cases.)
I think maybe The Ledge is gonna be getting a lot new members eventually. This was probably a fatal blow. It may take a LONG time for it to happen. But I think maybe it's past a certain threshold and it's entered into a spiral that can't be recovered from. There will be outward signs of "health" and the moderators will even tell themselves that everything's hunky dory and they "didn't need those idiots ANY-way." That's what they told themselves in the Cub Scout Pack also.
They "only" banned 39 out of 3,600 people or whatever. Yeah, fine, true - but they were key people that posted frequently. I betcha 80% of those other thousands of people are people who rarely post and will quickly lose interest. The quality of the posts will decrease over time, to the point where it's just kids posting stuff about "GEE Stevie's hair looks GREAT!" Don't get me wrong, of course there's nothing WRONG with discussing that - but I seriously doubt that any of these "thousands" of posters who remain will maintain interest in the board for long if that's ALL that's being discussed. SOME strong posters, BIG Fleetwood Mac fans, will still join up, oblivious to what's gone down here or not caring. But overall the quality of the board will decrease still further - and then less people will join up and pay for subscriptions. Which, by the way, people are already beginning to demand their money back for.
The Wizard, once he realizes, is gonna have to eat some crow here in order to fix his board - and there's the thing.
I hope he'll find the wisdom to just simply say, "Look, mia copa - let's fix this."
Otherwise, my honest opinion, after taking some time to reflect on this and thinking about several similar situations that I've seen, is that this was a fatal blow and that Seven Wonders is in DEEP trouble.