HylianSwordsman said:
But where do you draw the line? Some things are actually sexist or racist and deserve to be called out as such. SJW and Nazi are definitely overused, but feminist and nationalist are things that people often openly identify as. I'd say so long as no one is using those terms to dismiss a person entirely by attacking them instead of the argument it's reasonable, but do you really think that if someone wanted to accuse an argument of being sexist or racist, that we could trust every single mod to be a fair arbiter of which times the term sexist or racist is being fairly applied to the argument and when it's being unconstructively applied to the person? Legitimate discussion is possible, but I like the moderators here, and I don't want to have to associate them with the calls they make on the politics board as to what's acceptable and what's not, and I don't want other people to have their feelings about the mods colored by those political calls either. It's easy to respect the mods when they make calls in the gaming and sales forums, but the mods are just human beings. They're going to have political opinions, and those opinions are going to bias their calls in the Politics board, and people are going to be sensitive to that. Stricter moderation would just result in people who disagree on where to draw the line growing resentful of the moderators, and I for one am really grateful for the job our volunteer moderators do and don't want to put them into that position, or see the damage to the community that would cause. |
Would it really be that much harder than the video game forums though? There's a thread going around right now that's along the lines of "I never use my switch" or something like that that and it manages to be both critical but calm and understanding while if I posted something like "the switch is actual garbage and I regret buying it" it probably wouldn't last long. I really don't think navigating political opinions and all of the potential trolling and toxicity that come with it is really that much worse than some of the worst I've seen come out of fanboys for console makerso
