To be clear, not talking about this community, obviously 😛.

What’s the point of writing down rules, if mods just do what they want? But I suppose that’s the risk you take when you call someone a liar in a small community; they might be a mod.

Edit: I’m not trying to say that mods suck, they perform a useful and often thankless job. Just that it can be difficult for small communities to get a healthy number of good mods, which can become a problem.

  • mindbleach
    4·
    1 year ago

    You’d set up these rules, and some tween edgelord d-bag would test you to see how much they can push.

    You can just call those people buttheads and hit them with short bans until they get the message. Really, you can hand out 3-day bans like candy. It’s infinitely more useful than any form of 3-strike punishment game or kneejerk permaban.

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      I think this is good, as long as the user gets informed a) they they’re banned and b) what rule they broke.

      A warning first would also be nice, especially if it’s in the community rules 😛

      • mindbleach
        5·
        1 year ago

        Reddit’s automatic mesages on mod action were a positive and arguably necessary feature.

        But if bans are long enough to annoy and short enough to frustrate, they basically are the warning. Less gun-to-your-head, more spritzing a cat in the face.