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dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week agoAnd responsible ruthlessness is only possible with robust rules.
Comment on [META] Actually Infuriating Community
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week agoAnd responsible ruthlessness is only possible with robust rules.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
Good. Moderators need limits on their powers. You should need to make the cage bigger in order to deal with the edge cases. And when you make the cage bigger, the community should have an opportunity to question that. That’s anarchy. That’s responsibility.
It’s better to have an unmoderated community full of trolls than a community with tyrant mods. That’s the same philosophy as “it’s better that a hundred guilty go free than one innocent is imprisoned”. Obviously a community with good mods is best, but if mods can’t follow their own rules, they shouldn’t follow no rules.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
Ruthlessness is good, and responsible ruthlessness requires following through on your own intentions and the rules you created for yourself.
It’s like how Batman doesn’t kill. He decided that was the line and he sticks to it, even if it’s hard. Because he knows giving in would be worse.