So, what I’m getting from your comment is that yall’ve tried to ban the problem child(ren), but couldn’t make it stick? Mmm. Well, I wish you the best of luck on that front!
It was one guy, but quite persistent. Unfortunately, he used a strategy the existing moderating tools were not good for. (The tools are focused on moderating content, not vote manipulation and sockpuppet creation.) And the Reddit codebase (which LW uses) is very difficult to work with; even very simple ideas for new moderating tools took forever to develop. In long term it will be easier to switch to a completely new code, which is what LW 2.0 is (also) about.
Yep, that’s a pretty good TL;DR.
So, what I’m getting from your comment is that yall’ve tried to ban the problem child(ren), but couldn’t make it stick? Mmm. Well, I wish you the best of luck on that front!
It was one guy, but quite persistent. Unfortunately, he used a strategy the existing moderating tools were not good for. (The tools are focused on moderating content, not vote manipulation and sockpuppet creation.) And the Reddit codebase (which LW uses) is very difficult to work with; even very simple ideas for new moderating tools took forever to develop. In long term it will be easier to switch to a completely new code, which is what LW 2.0 is (also) about.