Well, crap.

I thought about posting this to Rant, but I'm not really ranty about it. Maybe I'm feeling moderately worried, so I'll post my worried in the moderate zone:

There was a tribe called "Show and Tell" -- I don't know that I read the description. It was a basic meme-distribution-with-commentary place for discussion, with no discernable central theme. There were about 400 members, many of whom posted with zeal, and near oral-compulsive enthusiasm. I was a member for about three or four weeks, during which time I almost left the tribe several times, just because I was frustrated trying to keep up with the volume of posts.

But I didn't. There were a lot of really funny threads, and sasstasstic comments that made me giggle or snicker, respectively. So I stayed there, and dealt with the glaring "Show and Tell: 1400 new posts" notifier on my homepage with mild chagrin.

Now it's gone; the Moderator made some comment in the middle of a thread that contained some racial epithets (I should say "apparently contained," as I was not keeping up). Someone got offended, and as part of the offended-person's defense, he went and found the Moderator's personal information, and posted it to the tribe with some kind of threat attached to it. Place of residence, employment, middle name, etc. The Moderator freaked out, and closed the tribe.

So. What's the deal with that? The invasive part is disturbing. Well, very disturbing. And now the both of them are going round-and-round in Tribe Moderators.

I feel like my little happy corner of Tribe.net is going just happy and nice, and then notice crap like this going on. Here I was hoping this was better than usenet...

Bleh.