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I feel like this has been enforced pretty leniently/poorly in the past. I've talked about this with david in the past in a random conversation, but it feels to me like only the worst/most blatant stuff will get removed, and even then it will take a while. There have been specific users who consistently seemed to be here just to put the other half of the sub down and devolve every conversation into hostility, but since they *technically* weren't breaking any rules nothing seemed to happen. Since he doesn't seem to be around anymore, I'll call him out. This guy[1] was the absolute worst offender. He was consistently hostile to people who didn't agree with him and couldn't resist the chance to insult people. Now I know a lot of his stuff was removed because I started saving his comments out of curiosity and checking while he was around, but a lot stayed.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/n2rs3/im_a_marxist_nazi_and_thats_ok/
Are you guys willing to have a conversation about enforcing the low effort rule a little more expansively?
Comment by amici_ursi at 05/02/2016 at 07:53 UTC
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For some context, I've been moderating here for a month or two.
It seems like not many/any mods actively troll threads looking for comments to remove or users to ban. We're getting better about staying on top of reports and modmail, but I don't think it's realistic for us to screen every comment that goes through the subreddit.
Instead what we do is investigate complaints and clean up messes when we come across them. If someone is constantly making an ass of themselves, then we're going to think hard about whether their contributions are worth the mess. If they aren't, then they'll be shown the door, regardless of how many microns they think they're on the safe side of the line.
Like I said, in another comment, we have a diverse team. I think that leads to more broad decisions across ideological boundaries about stuff like this.