A few days ago, someone posted a milestone post in one of Hive's communities and I decided to comment and congratulated them, immediately after that I got the notification that my comment has been hidden.
I decided to check the comment again to see if I had violated or typed anything wrongly and I didn't see only to realise that in this community, you have to join to comment on the post of who made a post on that community.
Today I saw a post from another account who made a post too- really good post for that matter and they muted his post too.
While I don't kick against communities have rules and regulations, why do I need to join a community to actually make a comment on the post of someone I want?
So basically this means you're restricting the chances of other non-members from engaging your community members? I also understand when they make rules for posts, but why make rules for comment too?
This are stuffs you see in places like Reddit, people should have freedom to comment across communities and across board, it's just anti-Hive to try and limit people from interactions because a content someone likes and wants to engage with was actually posted in your community.
I was going to talk about this community or state the name, but I just think I don't want to give them that unnecessary negative publicity. It's probably the only community on Hive that has this unique anti-social feature and I think the community can do better by actually taking away these bizzare comment lock-out features..
Tactics
Someone carefully sat down and think"oh let's limit people or mute them from commenting on posts in our community, that way they'll have no way than to join"
if this attempt is to actually get people to join then it's a very terrible attempt at socialising. While "community making" allows community creators the access to limit interactions on the posts of community members simply because the commentors do not belong to their community, I think it's actually not a very reasonable thing to do.
Freedom of association is also right and correct, but segregation because of a "community-making* feature that was turned on is a very terrible idea. This rules should only work with contents and posts and not with comments. Limiting the access of people will further take them away.
Saw this in the past with community content rules
I once remember a thriving weekday community where everyone wanted to post there because the owner was an orca, however there was a lot of laws and limitations.
Contents gets instantly muted for disobeying even one of the rules of the community.
Overtime people got tired of the constant muting and after that only the community owner and some of his friends were only posting in the community, and it's like that till today. That was crazy for me, but what is even crazier is forcing rules on comments.
I'd probably never join that type of community though, that's even if I wanted to.
No one wants to be limited. Imagine muting the comments of those who dropped by my post just because they commented on a post that was made in such community.
These guy can do better. I guess people comment with some expectations of support, but muting those in their comment section to get them to join is a terrible tactics and anti-Hive.