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.
I still see this drama with Dresden Imp JG5 whatever, on Conspiracy. https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/1ARwsBQqcG/straight-from-the-last-epstein-f/c/4eZDpIJtVPo?d=50
Simply make them take that to other forums.
I had never seen most of those users posting, and suddenly they were everywhere with some ridiculous inside drama I'd never heard of and things about antinatalist vs natalist, calling each other pedophiles and nonsense that doesn't belong in conspiracy.
Regarding language, historically people could disagree here even with some insults traded. I will never report someone for throwing in an insult out of anger during a discussion.
But dishonest shills who have no substance and only troll can kick rocks.
How does one enforce rules for some but not others? Just call them a shill and ban cause I said so? I wonder if we've seen what that looks like.
Yes that’s exactly what you are supposed to do.
Thank you.
"How am I supposed to ban people who are obviously useless trolls? Do I just like click a button? Could you really expect me to do that? How about I just blame you instead for calling out the problem?"
I'm saying enforce rules for those who showed up here recently causing trouble and started the whole endless trolling cycle. It's obvious to some of us, and we've been naming them.
And why keep someone like JG5 who banned both of us from his communities but thinks he gets to tell people here not to censor? Who uses alts to continue to disrupt and harass people.
And Dresden is an account whose sole mission is trolling and just devolving discussions into endless arguments and name calling. Why put up with that?
I don't think you're hearing me. How does this community keep it's integrity if I just ban at my will or who people tell me to ban? (Besides the gore posting pedo)
I don't follow that logic.
That's why we have rules, people can follow them or leave but rule 1 seems to be too difficult a task for some so now there's free for all threads.
The reason people supported your modship was to deal with the spam. That means the jeet, the imp, and JG5 (and their alts). Nobody was clamoring for word- and tone-policing. Now you’re allowing yourself to become a prop/tool/cudgel for the very people who have been spamming this place to death.
Pick your battles wisely
It requires discernment, not blindly trusting what I say.
What I said is verifiably true. You are making a conscious choice to keep those types of people here and the behavior that comes with it. Simple as that.