The SB mega-PM had enough members to beat any SB spin-off after SV and QQ.
Not even close. The PMs had less than a hundred members, they currently make up under 20% of the TS userbase.
To be blunt, this isn't an attitude that will help you or your site in the long run. Optics do matter, especially when you're trying to promote the free exchange of ideas... while simultaneously struggling with a widespread perception that you're far-right or alt-right, even while also your owner and administrator is embroiled in scandal, not to mention openly a fascist.
To be honest, I'm not sure I could do anything so publicly disastrous if I tried. You as a group need to be learning lessons from this.
Except that optics don't really matter to TS. The platform will either speak for itself over time or it won't. If it does then placating people that we don't much care about (again, this is a pro free speech site - if you get bent out of shape because someone has the "wrong" ideas then you aren't our target market) is a waste of time and effort that will also isolate those we do care about (very few sites are willing to tell the "SJW" crowd to fuck off publicly). If the platform doesn't speak for itself then trying to advertise it is ultimately a waste of time and effort.
@Zoe isn't actually a fascist, but she could be and it wouldn't matter to us. The one unifying thread of this forum is to create a place for the relatively civil exchange of virtually all views. Until and unless a staff member starts allowing their personal views to interfere with how they handle their staff duties - we (TS) do not care about what those views actually are.
I think you're substantially misunderstanding the situation here: I'm not feeling attacked (at least not in any way I would ever be concerned about), I'm pointing out errors you're making in an official capacity. I feel a bit silly and awkward for having to ask, but are you aware that you will have to act in an official capacity at some point? With your actual account? Maybe it would be good to post more carefully and with more attention with your official identity?
I am acting in an official capacity. There is a reason that this account has those "Staff" and "Super Moderator" banners.
And again, since you forgot to answer the question: What is the security risk of having a single account on a single forum?
That depends. Let's say that you are a well known individual somewhere else and have a following there. Sadly, this identity might possible be linkable to PII. You want to bring others with you but want to be able to express ideas that are liable to cause others to attempt to identity and harass you. So you make an Admin account that is easily linkable to your established identity and then don't use it for anything controversial. You then establish a second account and use it to post your views and interact with people; being careful to not disclose PII on that alternate account.
You're jumping to some conclusions here. Discussions of ideology were minimal in my posts, limited to me saying that an admin saying they're a fascist is a Bad Look for a forum with your genesis, but there were many other criticisms there. I feel this is what you want my criticisms to be about, and are going to ignore areas that you could possibly improve in as a result.
You consider an admin saying they are a fascist a "bad look". We (the staff at TS) consider an admin saying they are fascist to be utterly irrelevant. Fascism is a stupid, deeply flawed, ideology but people are free to hold said ideology just like they are free to believe in many other idiotic ideologies. So long as those ideologies don't interfere with a staff members ability to perform their staff functions; we (the staff) do not care.
If we did care then we would be acting directly against the primary reason that this site was established.
I don't want to care about optics, but I have a life of experience with falling on my face socially.
Bad optics gives the mob power. My perception is the mob can cause the board problems.
Giving into the mob gives the mob power. Mocking the mob and taunting them with the fact that they don't actually have any power tends to cause them to get enraged and eventually go bother someone else. The only power that the mob has on this forum is that which we (the staff) choose to allow them to have.
