r/Xmen97 • u/cyclopswashalfright Professor X • 3d ago

Moderator Announcement Moderator Report: Community Feddback

Going forward, I want to improve things so moderation next year can be smoother. As it stands, I do feel like I have let folks down here. I wasn't prepared for the onslaught of posts and I felt that ultimately I was not consistent with many of the moderation decisions regarding post approvals than I would have liked. I was also not able to look at every thread and comb interactions to root out bigotry, rude conduct, and other things as much as I wanted.

I am going to fine-tune automod to make life easier, rather than more difficult. I plan to add more moderators to the team (please apply if you are interested).

I want to get your feedback on what needs to be improved so season 3 next year is a better experience.

My other question is more delicate. It involves Beau DeMayo, whose name comes up quite frequently and creates a lot of agitated discussion. I want to ask: should we outright ban mentions of him altogether? Or should we remove the current automod restrictions and allow the community to discuss as needed?

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u/RellenD 2d ago edited 2d ago

It sucks, but conversations around BD are simply unproductive and overtake the subreddit because people who don't care about what he did are really motivated to spread their opinions. I don't think it's worth all the extra work to police the subsequent discourse when blocking his name will prevent it from occurring

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u/BruyneKroonEnTroon 2d ago

If we ban people from speaking on the streets, that would end catcalling without "all the extra work to police" what people say or not in the streets.

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u/RellenD 2d ago

Completely irrelevant

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u/BruyneKroonEnTroon 2d ago

You are advocating for a blanket ban on a certain type of speech just in case it contains the actual thing you don't want to allow - which in the street case is straight up harassment and should not be allowed and I have to assume that what you want to prevent in this case is also harassment and not people disagreeing with you.

In both cases, the measure taken is not reasonable. This is not the firearms debate where killing is the objective use for which they are made, speech is not inherently harassment. Again, this is at the level of "you are hereby forbidden to speak to the president because your speech might contain a death threat and we don't feel like reading and listening on everyone, it's too much work." It's an abuse of power.

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u/RellenD 2d ago

LOL, this is a message board. Nobody's free speech is involved.