@joepie91 @pathunstrom If there's a "decision algorithm" (run by humans or otherwise), they will exploit it - so yeah, "mods decide" is the last word and they should be glad it's a ban and not a bullet
Nov 17, 2025, 5:22 PM@flippac @pathunstrom Yep, that was exactly the rationale behind that policy. And I'd explain the ban at length to other people (as long as they had a track record of reasonably genuine participation), but questioning from the banned person or his buddies would be shut down quickly.
Prevented a lot of concern trolling while still teaching a lot of other folks about how to recognize dogwhistles etc. - the flipside of that was that it cost a lot of energy initially, it only got easier later as people started explaining it to each other.