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People come from different places online and with different expectations of what acceptable discourse is and what role moderators should play.
Finding the balance between free speech and maintainig a friendly atmosphere is something we struggle with constantly. And everyone has a different threshold for what they find acceptible, aggressive, or crossing some invisible line.
We have resisted, from the beginning, the tact of accumulating more and more rules in an attempt to "force" people to get a long. I think most of us have seen where that leads. As Mods, we tend to try to only gently push things, and at most resort to a threadban or closing a thread that's got out of hand.
Finding the balance between free speech and maintainig a friendly atmosphere is something we struggle with constantly. And everyone has a different threshold for what they find acceptible, aggressive, or crossing some invisible line.
We have resisted, from the beginning, the tact of accumulating more and more rules in an attempt to "force" people to get a long. I think most of us have seen where that leads. As Mods, we tend to try to only gently push things, and at most resort to a threadban or closing a thread that's got out of hand.