Don't give me this gaslighting about "you're just as bad for calling them out". Wrong. I've been here 5 years with no issues. It stands to reason that the mods should ban the people who came here recently causing the problems that led to the call for moderation.
Instead we just see word policing. Meanwhile you are allowing dishonest actors like JG5 / dresden to have a say in the discussion. The guy has been caught red handed astroturfing with alts. He just comes to troll and disrupt, but you'd rather just play wack-a-mole on his bad comments than simply ban the bad actor who started this need for moderation to begin with.
That's the same JG5 that bans everyone who disagrees with him from his communities (including the current mod) while complaining about censorship. Ban him and all his alts that came a few months ago arguing about antinatalism or whatever made up narrative to cause controversy.
A lot of new people started dropping by after the initial requests began and then went to meta, if I remember the chain of events correctly, u/Neo1 started threads in c/Conspiracies and then u/SwampRangers took that to mean genuine interest and took it to c/Meta and then an even greater influx was seen here, which I don't hold him accountable for creating.