[akhmatova]

It's absolutely a slippery slope.

Except that it isn't - and you yourself have slipped into a classic fallacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

[sodality2]

Slippery slope is only a fallacy when there's little to no evidence that you'll fall down the slope. When there is evidence or logic showing that it truly is slippery, it's not a fallacy anymore. Even from the article you linked:

> The strength of such an argument depends on whether the small step really is likely to lead to the effect

Some would say it is very likely for power-tripping HOA members to continue sliding down the slope.

[tiahura]

Some would say is neither evidence nor logic.

[akhmatova]

My mistake for joining a conversation in which the local neighborhood improvement association was literally compared with the Gestapo.