Agreed, and we are trying. I’m working on some ways to get some more consistency across the various mods since at the moment everyone more or less uses their best judgement, which is obviously not a great way to get consistency.
I agree in some forms, but not totally. I don’t want people to call each other assholes just to hurt each other. I am fine with people being called potential scammers if evidence is provided. So far we have been on the heavy moderation side, but I recognize that we should be a bit more hands-off as long as people behave somewhat. Working on it.
Maybe to make this a bit more constructive: Where would you draw the line what is allowed and what isn’t? We can’t allow illegal content, I don’t want to allow obvious scams like “call this number for free money” (we get dozens of those per week), I don’t want porn on this forum.
I agree, it is good to discuss such things. But in this specific case, threads were of extremely mixed quality. Some simply said this is a scam, and it looked like an attempt to start a witch hunt. Others showed claims together with evidence (conclusive or not isn’t too important IMO, but it sets the stage for an objective-ish discussion instead of a witch hunt). And then we had other threads where the hotornot folks were contributing to technical discussion and some folks came in to simply insult them.
IMO only the second should be allowed - you can call someone a fraud, but show evidence. I’m trying to make our policy on this more clear, both internally and here to forum users.
I can see who flagged, and I can tell you it’s a variety of people. Obviously if you call someone an idiot (or worse) they will likely flag the post, but there’s a lot of people that dislike(d) the tone of a lot of your (and others’!) posts in the last weeks.
Yes, we’re working on something. And we would like to start a proper discussion on the rules update.
I don’t think it needs to be done in that way. Take for example this thread. Yes, a lot happened outside of that thread, but IMO this is how you discuss hard topics without being too combative.