Have you experienced any problems such as trolling or hate speech with regard to your Substack newsletter?
Have you noticed any problems like that with other Substack newsletters?
How did you deal with these situations?
(If you don't feel comfortable sharing a particular problem in public, that's fine. If you want to let people know about it and trust me sufficiently, you can send me an email, so that I can post it as an anonymous comment.)
Generally, my experience in reading different Substack newsletters has been positive. I think the lack of anonymous posting helps that quite a bit. For my newsletter, I think the biggest factor in avoiding trolls and such has been the general lack of political content. That said, the few times I have ventured forth with an opinion on something, I've seen a quick set of subscriber churn (people leaving, new people signing up). One important point though, is that most of my engagement with my readers comes through Facebook, Twitter, and other non-Substack channels where I generally know who the commenter is. So, all that to say, uh, me good. You?
So far, I've had a mostly positive response. That being said, I have banned two people from my Substack already for being very inappropriate in their comments and emails to me, and I've started to see some trolling comments in our discord channel, and have banned them too. It's definitely a weird part of the internet, it freaks me out to think about some of the weird people out there reading my newsletter. But I will just keep banning, and I will take care to not divulge too much personal detail in my newsletters (which can be hard as a writer!).
I'm so new to this forum I am unsure just what SubHub is/does and have no knowledge of Substack.
Generally, my experience in reading different Substack newsletters has been positive. I think the lack of anonymous posting helps that quite a bit. For my newsletter, I think the biggest factor in avoiding trolls and such has been the general lack of political content. That said, the few times I have ventured forth with an opinion on something, I've seen a quick set of subscriber churn (people leaving, new people signing up). One important point though, is that most of my engagement with my readers comes through Facebook, Twitter, and other non-Substack channels where I generally know who the commenter is. So, all that to say, uh, me good. You?
So far, I've had a mostly positive response. That being said, I have banned two people from my Substack already for being very inappropriate in their comments and emails to me, and I've started to see some trolling comments in our discord channel, and have banned them too. It's definitely a weird part of the internet, it freaks me out to think about some of the weird people out there reading my newsletter. But I will just keep banning, and I will take care to not divulge too much personal detail in my newsletters (which can be hard as a writer!).