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'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
This was very good advice.
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.
How do I explain discernment to others that won't accept it? We need a stable meeting place to what the discernment is measured against, in this case the rules, in c/Christianity it's God's commands.
If you're judging by God's commandments then those people would be gone, and I'm not sure if anyone would still be here, myself included.
I'm talking about some more simple discernment. Conspiracies rules are supposedly to stop trolling and derailing of discussion by dishonest actors. Many people have noticed and pointed out said dishonest actors.
2+2=4.
And speaking of going based on your will, isn't that what you are doing when you listed a number of words that are red flags by federal agencies? That wasn't in the rules before.
So as I stated, if you're allowing those dishonest actors to continue when they continue to consistently show blatant bad faith and trolling (case in point here https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/1ARwwofFck/x/c/4eZDpMzQ4qH ) you want what they are bringing.
And case in point here https://media.scored.co/post/5XlawD1nQMb7.jpeg
And case in point here https://media.scored.co/post/LqJBvKHIL3bD.jpeg
And they just made a new alt because they don't respect your authority at all https://communities.win/u/NotannAltofJG5/