[Deimorz]

Sure - I won't claim that I've got it solved or that it's an easy thing to do at all. I think it's actually a very common mistake to act like it is easy, and that you should be able to write a perfectly-objective rule or draw a bright line between what's allowed and what isn't. Anyone that's done much moderation on the internet knows that it's definitely not that simple, nothing where humans are involved is ever that black-and-white.

There are certainly blatant cases that there's just no reason to allow (and if you look at Voat you'll see a lot of those), but there are also a lot of more difficult ones that will take work to try to sort through. There are a lot of very smart people that have put a lot of thought into these issues while running their own higher-quality communities, and I think we need to try to learn from them instead of shying away from doing anything because it's a "hard problem", or hoping that AI will somehow solve it.

Just as an example, here's a recent blog post by some of the mod team of /r/ChangeMyView, which is a group I respect a lot and I think have done an amazing job of creating a place to have civil discussions. This is the level of reasoning they're putting into "simple" cases like whether "that's bullshit" is too rude: https://changemyview.net/2018/03/28/thats-bullshit-rude-enou...