Blueshirt Banter is a community of hockey fans as much as it is a hockey blog. As all of you know, our community is big and active. It’s also funny, knowledgeable, and passionate. However, it can also be exclusionary and intimidating, especially for newcomers. That is something that we, as a group, need to work on.
For the past few months we’ve made a point of monitoring how much moderating we do at the Banter at least once a week. No blog in the entire network requires as much moderating activity as our community. Something needs to change.