Reply To: The State of Digital Discourse: What a Sentiment Analysis Reveals About Popular Music Producer Forums

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On swijaya said

Still, on a relative basis, out of all of the forums included in this analysis that aren’t LinkedMusicians, KVR would rank as the one I like the best.

So, your toxicity leveling is actually the opposite of Gemini’s?

Btw, I like the blog post, and this is exactly why you should keep blogging.

Well, I definitely am not saying that I know more than Gemini or that I did formal analysis, I didn’t. My take comes down to this. I’ve spent a lot of time at KVR in past years. I know what developers I respect and trust have told me about the ownership, and I’ve known one of the moderators for around 20 years, we’ve been connected of Facebook and I think he’s a great guy with a good heart. I don’t believe that the owners of KVR have shown any signs that they are deliberately okay with toxic environments. I think the problem there is effectively moderating a community that large. I think the others on the list are well-known in the industry for problematic practices, where I don’t need to go beyond what Gemini wrote. I think of all of the forums on that list (not including LM), KVR is the one community and that list where I don’t think the problem lies with the ownership’s deliberate actions (now I’m taking the manipulation that Gemini wrote about off the table for that statement because i just don’t know enough about the acts) , but is the result of not being able to effectively police a very large community. I would attribute the other forums’ issues to being a reflection of the owners’ values or lack thereof.

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