(the storm also seems to have done something to AT&T so that's why some of my stuff might be down)
(the storm also seems to have done something to AT&T so that's why some of my stuff might be down)
finally banned one of the people involved with making it like this
however now i'm just noticing more and more bad things about some users, including some HUGE red flags that i'm embarrassed I didn't catch earlier
i've created a save haven for some awful people and i hate it
thinking about it more, it just keeps getting worse the more I think about it
I have a tough choice to make here, these people are some of the most active ones in the server so it would definitely feel empty without them, but then again is the toxicity really worth it
these people are also somewhat knowledgeable about dev stuff and have even contributed quite a significant amount of code to the bot, so I'd probably lose that as well
I just don't know how I would deal with this while also minimizing risk to the project, which is really bad when you consider that a good amount of people using the bot are probably the types that browse /g/ and the toxic parts of 4chan all day
software dev and odd individual, made esmBot and working on some other projects
crossposts from https://twitter.com/TheEssem but I do use fedi quite often
i run this instance lol