Wintering: On Hiatus, Bill C-22, and Why I Don't Block People

Earlier today, I announced that I'm putting a fair number of folk.zone services on hiatus. There were a few reasons for this. Primarily, it is due to a lack of capability to responsibly moderate and manage so many different services. Around two months ago I checked and found that the WriteFreely instance I set up had over 500 spam users and posts. Even worse than that, though, is that when I tried to deal with it, I embarrassingly ran a database query that removed not only the spam accounts, but the legitimate ones too. There were only a small handful, and they had their writing saved elsewhere, but it is still incompetent of me to run a destructive command like that as a sysadmin. Thankfully, I've been a lot more careful and enacted much better practices with fanfiction.lol, where there are over 300 users, and I can at least take solace in that. The idea for folk.zone is rather simple, in theory. It isn't hard to follow a couple tutorials and, if you're lucky with your ISP, port…