Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen.

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Influence, narrative-control, hurting the other tribe, control over a little domain. Those are good pay for some people.

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But if they're saying the wrong stuff then I get to hit them with my modhammer. Right?

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So you want to shape us.

How about just letting us talk?

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be in the community but secretly ...

Oh that will work out just fine.

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I'm not a mod

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Disregarding the power of "influence" in the modern day is so absurd, honestly.

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Did you just call me stupid! O_o you heartless beast.

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Most conversations on the internet are worthless or I would even attribute negative value to many of them.

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I'm fine with it, but me personally, am also fine leaving communities when they have stopped being useful and become belligerent, like you're describing.

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But it's a very good guideline for people who, like moderators, have power and imperfect understanding. It's saying, "when in doubt, err on the side of least possible harm". So that's a good guide. Right?

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What if they got off topic. What would happen?

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Generally yes, but I feel a lot of people will assume their grievance is some sort of gray area that needs this type of consideration when it's most likely not.

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here, how to speak then

You missed a closing delimiter on the subclause. Is that still acceptable speech for you?

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Do we count 'nametag' jobs of the late '80s? If so, then I'm in!

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Well, that's the problem.

Karen is just an excuse to call women something without having the guts to be up front about it.

Originally, it was about a specific kind of entitled behavior. But it turned into a generic misogynist term like bitch used to be.

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Actually it ain't. Good, catch

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Well there is no clean connection between the rule and reality (short of forbidden word lists anyway). It's always a matter of somebody's interpretation.

Some communities have rules like "don't be a dick", which seems implied.

Maybe rules are inappropriate here. At best a justification.

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Most? Well not my conversations.

Maybe it's a smalltalk vs "largetalk" thing. Maybe most conversations are smalltalk. Talk that's just friendly noise or whatever.

That is a territory with which I am pretty unfamiliar.

But ya, 2 totally different kinds of talk.

Maybe trolling constitutes a 3rd variety.

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But you uttered an opinion about moderation. So don't dodge my point.

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