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In reply to the discussion: Misogynist Trolls Have An Agenda, And It’s Not Lulz [View all]Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)It brought a lot of the more specific, personal grudges a lot of posters have out into the open - it makes it harder to ignore (or miss) it in, say, LBN or GD if there's fifteen threads in Meta where different people are complaining about the conduct of a couple of others, whether the complaints are justified or not.
I adminned a much smaller (but still large), mostly apolitical board a few years back that tried a similar setup for discussing moderation and policy. It was an absolute disaster - a large audience started hanging out there almost exclusively, and when the subforum was shut down the drama it brought out into the open was impossible to ignore everywhere else.
(That said, I'm still happy to see Meta gone; that place was a cesspit.)