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Is everyone satisfied with the moderation here? For me, it’s getting to unacceptably high levels. For some reason, they recently felt the need to almost double the mods to take care of the shrinking userbase.
Our old charitable custom was to treat strangers as if they were worthy of good faith. Increasingly the mods treat those whose good faith has already been established (such as the recently modded Kulak, Hlynka, Burdensomecount) as if they were strangers.
Like reddit, you can start off as a bastion of free speech, but inevitably mods identify with their function and see mod action as an end in itself, until they become more prison guards than janitors.
So are there good alternatives to the motte out there?
Personally, I think Hlynka got off lightly, Kulak was only warned, so that hardly merits complaint. Only BurdensomeCount was punished relatively harshly (20 days), which I don't think that comment earned on its own (but could maybe be warranted, in light of a broader pattern?), in my subjective and utterly irrelevant judgment.
Count has a fondness for trolling and has probably been warned dozens of times. I think that (as with Hlynka) moderation of regulars who break rules on civility is very light-touch, and I enjoy his posts, but occasionally the stick needs to come out (and Hlynka has himself been banned before iirc).
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