| Zkuq said: For what it's worth, I think moderation here seems excellent. If anything, it's too much bad faith discussion that's being tolerated instead of people being banned arbitrarily, for political views etc. No, I don't think moderation should be stricter in practice, because apparently a lot of people want to discuss in bad faith or otherwise disrespectfully. I think currently it's a pretty sweet spot between keeping discussion civil and being too strict. Thank you for the great work you do! |
There was a Mod once called Kasz I think? And his stance in Politics was that it naturally gets more heated than most areas so he was more relaxed about moderating debates which get heated and whatnot, IIRC...I like to think that's the stance that I've taken for the most part in Politics, I argue with people, a lot, it sometimes gets heated, I've felt insulted multiple times, but I try to avoid moderating people when they directly insult me, Lmao. And that HAS resulted in many users telling me that I'm too easy on them and should just ban them, but I will ban blatantly bigoted stuff or someone supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, or people insulting other users other than myself. But when I do get sucked into a debate I try to leave my mod hat at the door, Lol. Honestly annoys me when I'm debating and someone mentions my Mod, it makes me want to quit Mod, Lmao. In the Russia-Ukraine thread I was told multiple times I was too soft.
In this very thread in the past few weeks we have had users saying we're too strict and users saying we're too soft, so like, Lol. Fml.
