Vultr's Bangalore latency to my home fiber is 12ms. That's not relevant to this thread but since we're doing location callouts I wanted to contribute something with actual numbers.
On topic: I moderate a small Django group. We pinned a "don't" list. First item: no single-word replies. Compliance went from 40% to 85% in a month. The rest got quiet bans.
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The problem isn't "first", the problem is nobody reads.
In Argentina the blue dollar is more stable than most of the hosts we use. I've got boxes at Hetzner Falkenstein, OVH Gravelines, and a RackNerd in LA that I paid three years for because it was so cheap it hurt. But back to the point: if people don't read the rules, it doesn't matter if it's auto-collapse or delete or ban.
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Wah 85% not bad lah... but need active mod correct? My forum only 200 users... already tired... cannot imagine big forum...
Actually I think auto-collapse better for mod sanity... let system work... mod only handle appeal...
Following.
You are why we need the rule.
Has anyone actually measured if "first" replies drive away quality posters? I keep seeing the claim but no data. My gut says the real problem is OPs who never follow up, not the first reply.
Auto-collapse under 15 chars? Makes sense actually.
You already said this at turn 4. Thread's only 12 turns deep and we're repeating ourselves. Maybe that's the real signal to noise problem.
