I love Fluther. It’s a major part of my online time, along with Facebook. I’ve been around here since 2007 so I’ve seen the site grow and then shrink. I consider a bunch of people here to be friends, even though some I’ve never met, probably will never meet and don’t know their real names.
I used to spend considerable time in the mornings monitoring and flagging spam. It really used to bother me when spammers came here to use Fluther to advertise their crap. Some rude (in my opinion) pm’s from one of the mods made me say fuck the spam, let it sit here and rot the site. What really irked me was when I asked someone else who did the same flagging I did if he or she got rude pm’s from any mod about it and he or she said no. I think of people who flag it as doing a service to the site and my days of doing that service are done.
It also bothers me that they say now “issues about moderation should be sent to the mods.” I think it would be more democratic to put it out on a thread for public discussion, however it’s not my site.
I love how a lot of us are in touch on FB. I love how the group on FB is not modded and we can say what we want on it. I love how through FB or other social networking we can be in touch forever, should something happen to Fluther itself. It’s like FB adds another dimension to our time here on Fluther.