[nicbou]

When I was a mod, my policy was to let the idiots speak and the downvotes answer. People should understand that the community is showing them the door, not the mods.

I drew the line at bad behaviour, which usually came in response to unpopular opinions. In other words, I left conservative comments and deleted angry personal attacks in response to them.

Some people did not get it. We had a biweekly "where are the mods" rant. They accused mods of siding with "the Nazis". By that they meant anyone who said anything a conservative person might agree with. Guilt by association.

This is how I learned the term concern trolling, which I understand as someone listening to your arguments in order to debate them. In other words, a debate. Some people were not having it.

We get hiveminds because that's what people ask for.

[throwawaywat251]

That might create the Nazi bar problem

https://nitter.net/IamRageSparkle/status/1280892535024619522

https://teddit.net/r/TalesFromYourServer/comments/hsiisw/kic...

[nicbou]

The thing is those people weren't even close to Nazis. They just politely disagreed with the hivemind on finer points. All you had to do to fight them was to disagree and explain your position. You already had the crowd cheering for your side, so why should the mods give you even more of an advantage?

The risk of creating a hive mind seemed greater than the risk of being overrun by Nazis, since they got downvoted to oblivion anyway.