I feel like this place would have a much higher reputation if the community was actually a lot more tame or better to be in, in my opinion. It’s not really moreso a matter of “skill”, as from what I’ve seen people tend to actually be impressed by the stickfigures made on here.

From what I’ve been seeing from people on other platforms, the SN website just seems to have a reputation of another SN “subcommunity” that doesn’t really seem to be managed properly. They mostly either see it as a place for figure makers, or unfortunately, a place for the “weirdos”. While this seems a bit offensive, I honestly wouldn’t blame them.

There’s a key point that I feel like should be addressed more:
The moderation on this site feels incredibly lackluster. No offense to the mods, I’m sure you guys got the role for a reason, but please step it up. People honestly get away with way too much on this site, and the fact that the mods always take a sort of “neutral” stance on everything, taking minimal action, really doesn’t help this site’s reputation. I feel like a proper “punishment” system would really help this site a lot more, or at least making the rules a lot more clearer so people won’t just get away with everything on this site. Also highly suggest just locking posts which get way too heated and tell people to “stop any further discussion” when necessary. It’s good to be lenient and supportive of the community and all, but you need a decent balance between strict punishment and lenient behavior if you want people to actually not continue site drama.

Before people start saying that I don’t know anything about modding or it’s hard to balance being strict and fun, I’ve moderated a bigger community (1000+ “active” users, 300k members) before with that exact mindset, with resounding success. It’s incredibly easy to stay engaged with the users and still be someone who enforces the rules. It’s not abusive to enforce the rules, just always make sure to make the site’s rules your primary basis for action to remain truly neutral.

TL;DR: Enforce the rules better. People get away with everything here.

also @ralph when are you hiring more mods 😁😁😁

I think some incentive put towards collabs and things would be great, once the SNU is out along with SNCA I feel like that could help with SN’s reputation.

Nice idea