I finally found it.
There was some discussion about how severely to punish the comment. I was on vacation (I was ~5 states away from my home). So unfortunately the comment was unmoderated for about a day.
Unfortunately most of the moderators are kind of checked out of the forum in the first place. We have had multiple people drop out in the past year and a half. And unfortunately even more of the mods are checked out of the politics section. I am pretty sure I am still one of the most active mods here, despite the fact that I am inactive enough for someone to make a post asking what happened to me.
Politics is frustrating. People are mad whether we act or not, people are mad because we aren't mean enough to some people and are too mean to other people. There have been several users who have never been moderated for their behavior in the US politics thread, who still frequently feel that we're too mean because four people are disagreeing with them. Despite the fact that the mods are doing nothing to them.
People point out that some of this is subjective, but despite people believing that it's so subjective, they also somehow believe that all the mods are on the exact page, and that we're expected to toe the party line.
Frankly I'm a hopeful idiot who still thinks that people can change their mind through having discussions, no matter how terrible their opinion is. I know a lot of people more on the left are disappointed that I haven't punished bad behavior more often.
There are some subjective elements, like what people value, and how they think something should be handled.
Even in this thread, we have some people who think we should be allowed to say basically anything, and people who are upset we didn't throw enough chairs at someone.
I struggle a lot with navigating that. I don't like the idea of punishing someone for saying their opinion. Which is generally why my first instinct is to write a response to someone.
Like Chrkeller was complaining that Leynos only got a week ban. Was that enough? Probably not. I don't know what the right answer should have been. Maybe a permaban was in order. In my ideal world I would just tell Leynos it's wrong to make threats, and nothing else would have to happen after that. And tell another user it's wrong to be transphobic because of these reasons, and they would just listen to reason and everyone would just go on their merry way.
And I struggle a lot because that's not the world we live in.
And despite all the conflicts that I put myself through to try to be objective and try to be considerate to people who have different views than I do, I am basically one of the first mods to get blamed because I am more active in politics than most.
Damned if and when I do, damned if and when I don't.
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