SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
3d ago
Us mods take such claims seriously. We would appreciate examples, and if it became clear that we were egregiously biased, we would seek to correct ourselves.
I've long thought that one simple additional mod rule would improve the moderation, and particularly complaints about moderation here significantly: The most user visibly active mod or two at the time (say for the last month or two) doesn't get to make or participate in any decisions about good but controversial contributors. Zorba banning the legendary TrannyPorno? Regrettable but kosher. Someone like HLynka doing the same? Not kosher (I hope I recall who was the most active mod at the time correctly).
From ordinary user perspective there seems to always be one or two mods who are way too trigger happy in non-obvious janitorial duties. This rule would IMO help quite a bit against that.
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
We've had the "the opinions expressed here are so repugnant, that I should not be expected to be civil" argument here before. Sorry, this isn't that kind of place, if that's what you want 4chan and KiwiFarms are still open.
I mean, you don't even have to be all that polite here and be ok as far as the moderation goes. The bar is really quite low.
SkoomaDentist
5d ago
I'm actually surprised at how effectively Stross keeps his leftist ideology from ruining the books entirely. It does make it through sometimes but generally can be ignored.
Just be sure to never ever visit his blog. That's woke leftist central to the power of one million.
SkoomaDentist
6d ago
For me effective suspension of disbelief comes down to whether or not the there's internal consistency. It's not about how outlandish or even stupid-on-its-face the impossible element is, it's whether or not the story acts as though it believes in that impossible element. As soon as the story stops believing its own impossibility, then how am I supposed to believe in it?
I keep being amazed by how few authors grasp this. A story should be internally consistent and stick to how things work in the real world except where explicitly noted in the text, as clearly (and largely unambiguously) established in the genre conventions or where the differences are gradually hinted at and revealed.
SkoomaDentist
6d ago
I’d expect a significant portion of even Mottetizens to scream bloody murder if European style education system was implemented as that would also mean getting rid of their precious liberal arts education system in universities.
I actually tried to find which mod made the announcement back when the forum was on reddit but couldn’t. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Zorba tho (which was my point).
TrannyPornO was one of the best and most interessting contributors The Motte ever had. He also had a tendency to sometimes use rather colorful language. The mods had a policy of escalating bans based on previous bans and their own internal notes and an overactive mod or two who give such notes very easily. This meant that unless you toed the imaginary line of that specific mod, you were more or less guaranteed to end up on the mods’ shitlist with every previous ban being used to justify you getting even deeper on that list.
Thus my suggestion that the most active mods not be allowed to moderate a small specific subset of users.
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