Curate

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[LazySnake]

It's like weeding your garden. You're not removing greenery, you're removing stuff that's making it harder for everything else to grow.

[RaethFennec]

This is true not just of Twitch communities, but local communities, friends groups, clubs, anything. A lot of people will quietly leave if the vibes are off, and you probably won't get those people back. But if you go through the hard work of figuring out who the problems are and either getting them to change, step in line, or leave... suddenly you're surrounded by people and your community grows!

[omegahaxors-]

If you plant flowers you get flowers
If you plant weeds you get weeds
If you plant nothing, you get weeds

[leesy]

I've been modding for a few years, and this is one of the things I've struggled with. We see people being ignorant, or cringe, or annoying etc, and see the chats going quiet when they show up and the viewer counts dropping, but the streamers don't want to get rid of them half the time.

[JDLoxx]

There is something so articulate and eloquent about how he presents himself. I have seen shorts pop up on my feed all week and I'm instantly hooked to every word.

[camwha]

4chan is a good example of what happens when you don’t do this. People don’t want to be there and the people that hang out there become miserable. I’m glad I got out of that place myself, getting out did wonders for my mental health.

[Thejester]

Your community has been so welcoming to me. It's one of the reasons why I joined

[KatieCunningham]

A saying in some of my open source communities: Your community is no better than the worst person they tolerate.

[Rojo]

Absolutely
When big streamers have toxic communities and go "what do you want me to do I can't moderate 20k people"
So many times it's cuz they didn't moderate 20 people when they were starting to grow
Your stream is a private space and not a right, you can remove anyone for any reason. It's yours to curate and above all what you're doing as a streamer is telling people "if you come to this stream I can promise you this experience"

[bd]

Lethalfrag is a good example of this. Fought to make his community a nice space, never got dragged into the drama mud. Still has a good sized stream and welcoming community

[bandawin]

I was watching Avoiding the Puddle a while back and he said pretty much the same thing. It was more like "you can have whatever community you want, you just gotta ban the people you DON'T want and eventually the people you DO want will show up"

[oompalumpus]

If you mess around at a club and ruin the vibes, then big burly bouncers will pick you up and throw you out.

People want to have fun. But people who have fun at the expense of others will damage a community.

[themushroominside]

Its literally the same concept as pruning, if you let the branches grow out of control they will do so in an unhealthy manner that can stifle growth, by properly pruning out the bad branches, you allow other branches to grow in their place.
Its very possible to have a large community and keep it civil, otherwise moderation would not exist

[Gamemaster]

I know alot of people frown upon the "Tolerance Paradox" idea but it's true in alot of ways. If you let people antagonize other people, the antagonize groups will leave and the community will attract people who either don't care if people are being treated poorly will will activity harass other people.

You can't tolerate that kind of behavior. You must moderate before you can tolerate.

[MrGeocym]

True in life too. If you cutting yourself down to fit in with what your "friends" want you to be you will never be as happy as if you instead cut out the toxic people who don't appreciate you fully

[Primal]

GEEGA and Thor need to do a conversation on curating and growing a community. Humor, knowledge and people skills they both have are so perfect. Favorite tip from GEEGA was training the community to curate itself. When someone is being offensive, or just a douchebag to others chat will start spaming "shitter". Chat basically gate keeps itself against those who shouldn't be there.

[Realience]

I was talking with someone about a game we were both working on, and how we need to hone in on our target audience, and they had said "Oh, I don't believe there are target audiences"

Well, there are, who are we making the game for, a person who likes JRPGs probably won't want to play a horror game, obviously that's not all the time, but it's still important to know what kinds of people we want to enjoy the game

[Gruzbee]

I tried giving this advice to a couple of new streamers, who encouraged raunchy and obnoxious behavior from their chat, and I cautioned them that if they let their chat control their stream, they would end up losing control of the whole thing. Yeah, they didn't listen, and every other stream descended into crap that was on the verge of getting the channel banned. It was not pretty.

[JonnyRoss]

The RIGHT audience is always more lucrative than ANY audience.

[jacktherupert]

As a long time bartender it's the same thing, getting rid of the bad customers Is good for the bar, they aren't just driving you crazy.