I have a theory that u/JosephGoebbel5 has only just recently 'joined' our forum because he heard there's no active moderation and is spamming the board, using it as his own little soap box. (It's not) I also think by his overuse of posting and disregard for others he is probably trying to bury our theorizing in varied topics because we are on to some things.
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Also, u/Thisisnotanexit, since he is calling my pinging spam I don't need to ping him anymore. (My thoughts would be that comments with no beneficial value that contain disrespect, attack, bad report, exceptionally low quality, disruption, evidence of stalking, repeated unsolicited matter, misleading statement, violence, or abuse would be deleted by the mod(s); so such a comment is obviously a bad report (and disruptive via its repetition), as it reports a comment that has effort and value.) But if he posts something for public comment I continue to reserve the right to take such a post as a solicitation. At that point I might get to tell him some changes that might get him in better stead with the community. As it stands, it seems there's no need to interact with most of his contribs, or even to downvote them (because he may be claiming cash value from the downvotes), similarly as with other problematic accounts, if I'm upvoting the things around them for contrast. But that's all with the theory that we might attempt for a time to see a moderated community with a committed neo-Nazi that actually has the guts to be honest about having his fascism tested and to work toward being the best Nazi he can be instead of some larper. God can redeem anyone, even Nazis.
"Trust but verify" means even as we extend as much grace as we can we also prepare for the worst. In this case there's not much to worry about. Admin acts fast if there are true issues (the Indian-larping accounts do not seem to have resurfaced); we can presumably get consensus on moderation and admin approval; the community rolls with the punches and, despite having lots of anarchs, doesn't have serious fragmentation. There are bursts of 100 comments in 1-2 hours, which I grant does make it hard to scan comment feed; that's the worst of the inconveniences of this inconsideration. Ordinary moderation is equal to these. With the forum goal being fair transparent future I don't think the present problems or the future potential problems are too serious that they will overcome that goal. But I probably should respond to less bait so as to help quiet things down.
The Indian LARPing accounts will return when the stormfaggots see changes they don't like. Happens every time. Then they try to prop one of their own up as mod.