Vincent SparksAVincentInSpace@furry.engineer
Nov 14, 2025, 3:44 AM@pathunstrom i have been called a fascist for telling people to vote for kamala harris instead of jill stein
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Piper Thunstrompathunstrom@ngmx.comNov 14, 2025, 4:38 AM@AVincentInSpace It would be way more funny to just block you for this, but I'm gonna be nice this once:
The reason this works, besides fascists self selecting into being vocal about it, is because the kinds of people who are willing to quibble on a rule that says no fascists?
They're going to push on all of your rules. They will be an explicit drain on community management resources.
Frankly: letting rules lawyers overwhelm your community is a fast way to end up with a community with low trust and exhausted volunteers.
Daniel Bohrerdaniel_bohrer@chaos.socialNov 16, 2025, 10:02 PM@pathunstrom thank you for the additional explanation, this was not clear to me before!
filobusfilobus@sociale.networkNov 17, 2025, 2:20 PM@pathunstrom @AVincentInSpace and now it's so easy to spot fascists, they don't hide anymore
- Vincent SparksAVincentInSpace@furry.engineerNov 17, 2025, 7:14 PM
@filobus @pathunstrom and people wonder why I don't trust people who call themselves leftists.
literally beyond parody
TattieTattie@eldritch.cafeNov 19, 2025, 10:34 PM@pathunstrom lol, you eased up on your own rule to be nice, and just a little bit down the page the person demonstrates that your rule was 100% spot on
- Piper Thunstrompathunstrom@ngmx.comNov 19, 2025, 10:42 PM
@Tattie It's absolutely fascinating how effective it is!
Just every reply guy goes "I will be the one to convince them this rule is wrong!" and just, immediately demonstrates why it's effective.
horsedreamerhorsedreamer@thicc.horseNov 15, 2025, 6:01 AM@AVincentInSpace @pathunstrom and would you want to be in spices run by those people? the rule cuts both ways.
- Vincent SparksAVincentInSpace@furry.engineerNov 15, 2025, 6:04 AM
@horsedreamer @pathunstrom of course not. but i would like such people not to pretend that it is a common sense rule that only ever excludes fascists and not just people the moderators are too tired to be civil to.
otherwise, everyone would adopt it, and, well, very quickly, the internet would have a shocking number of "fascists".
- horsedreamerhorsedreamer@thicc.horseNov 15, 2025, 6:07 AM
@AVincentInSpace mmm... and yet the effectiveness of the rule bears out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm too old to try to make other people correct.
- Vincent SparksAVincentInSpace@furry.engineerNov 15, 2025, 6:08 AM
@horsedreamer i won't deny that banning anyone you're too tired to be civil to does reduce your workload as a moderator