I was a lurker on the subreddit and discord, and I've been watching the modlogs, and it looks like you've been banning people based on their usernames when they make one post, if they were banned in the discord? What's the deal with that? were they chuds?
Due to the way that posts are removed after banning the logs can show that they were just banned rather than showing the removed posts they were banned for as well. You can click the usernames and see they have been posting if you want.
I have been. I'm slightly less sympathetic, but there were still quite a few that didn't seem to post anything bad but were still banned for either "wrecker shit" or "trolling" or "drama" or something on that line, and I think that that's a little bit sus
although I can't actually see the context on a lot of these, because there doesn't seem to be any way to go to a post a comment aws posted on
That could be improved I guess. It's a fine line between leaving content up and removing that content.
going to be honest, I get what you're saying, but that's a little bit of an oxymoron
That's the issue though right? Should content that is removed for being a liability still be accessible? I think ultimately it's better to err on the side of things being a little less open than leaving things up.
There's two places where that problem requires hard censorship in my experience: CP and doxxing. That shit should never be left up. Otherwise the only issue I have with mod logs is that it results in people second-guessing dumb drama and other bullshit shit that's better left forgotten, so it generates a constant churning meta conversation that is mostly (but not always) unhelpful and which frequently quickens bad feelings. That's a problem that can be mitigated however, it just means more work for the mods, in the form of explaining the same thing over and over again to anyone who thinks something looks sketchy.
HOLY SHIT are you also Dear_Occupant on reddit?
Edit: also good post. I agree, but due to the eventual mod elections having transparent modding is important for that.
Fuck I hope so because I like this username.