So is this staunchness restricted to vaccines within a certain development timeframe and if so where does your staunchness border lie? Or are you just ideologically pro-polio?

So mild forms of eco-vandalism are legitimate forms of political protest? [rhetorical question, just illustrating the pathologically self absorbed boomer mindset]

A ‘Time out’ sub called, ‘A bag of dicks’ containing a roll call of temporarily detained members?

might as well have fun with it. :)

Moderation is a form of parenting, at an open arms orphanage that accepts toxic pathological psychopaths. It’s a tough gig.

It was a tiny [1278 member] niche investment sub. It has 2 years of tech questions and answers.

This morning I posted this and walked away.

"I’m out, I’ve meet greasy little fucks like spez in real life and you couldn’t pay me to associate much less have me waste my time for free. Experimenting with https://lemmy.nz/

I’m not comfortable with the ‘take my ball and go home’ form of boycott . Seems selfish.

So I’ll put the sub on ‘restricted’ after this post which will mean no new posts but you can use the search function within the sub to probably get answers on issues as a lots been covered over the couple of years.

That’s my first layer of compromise.

The second is if someone want’s to mod and bring it back fully then send me a message and you can take a seat on this rancid exploitative corporate vehicle.

I’m out."

I just went to the sub I’m the sole mod for, opened it up after the 2 day blackout. Then flicked across to ‘all’ and saw the reddit CEO making ‘this will pass’ noises so went back to my sub and closed it up again. I might open it up tomorrow again and ask if any of the 1500ish members want to mod it to keep it going. [I don’t see why my boycott has to be anyone elses issue] or I might just let it die…see how I feel in the morning.

I used to mod a NZ sub, small enough, under 2000, solo-mod. Banned 5 people over 2 years. It’s hard to quantify ‘toxic’ but whether it’s a conceit or a gift I simply trust I know it when I see it.

I went dark over the Steve Huffman spez behaviours and have extended the shutdown given his response thus far. I’m personally less than enthusiastic about modding as a group dynamic exercise.

I’m the sort of person who would have to be paid to take others seriously. That said the best moderation comes from larger groups with tight rules [like some of the hard science subs] Studied moderation since the internet began in sociological, psychological, game theory, studied all the fallacies etc etc.

Decades ago there was a site called NewsVine that operated with a code of honour which surprisingly worked in that it allowed people with conflicting views the ability to converse.

I don’t think a proper wheels yet been invented re a moderation template.
Just build something and tweak it as it goes I guess. Good luck.