I’m managing/leading an internet gaming community, and the only tools I’ve ever had to use are selection and conversation.
I’ve had one person leave because their goal in joining was to acquire enough information and power to cause harm and they were so unsubtle about it that I was able to identify that and stop them. One additional person left because our norms of ‘don’t cheat’ and ‘be nice to our friends’ were given to him gently by everyone in voice chat every time they were violated.
Oddly enough, both of those people ended up joining a specific competing group that held neither of the norms ‘don’t cheat’ nor ‘don’t make public rape threats towards people who call out your cheating’.
And my selection method? Be public and pushy about what kind of norms you have, and push away people who don’t already have and want to follow those norms.
I’m managing/leading an internet gaming community, and the only tools I’ve ever had to use are selection and conversation.
I’ve had one person leave because their goal in joining was to acquire enough information and power to cause harm and they were so unsubtle about it that I was able to identify that and stop them. One additional person left because our norms of ‘don’t cheat’ and ‘be nice to our friends’ were given to him gently by everyone in voice chat every time they were violated.
Oddly enough, both of those people ended up joining a specific competing group that held neither of the norms ‘don’t cheat’ nor ‘don’t make public rape threats towards people who call out your cheating’.
And my selection method? Be public and pushy about what kind of norms you have, and push away people who don’t already have and want to follow those norms.