You are correct and I deleted my post as I was not clear on it, making it wrong. Rather than relitigating the tangential issue, it’s better to drop it now and be more careful in the future. Thank you
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It’s quite frustrating that there are so many auto-redacted posts in this thread - as of this writing, there’s still posts from the first day of the thread that are marked as “temporarily” hidden due to user flagging. Like, over a dozen of them.
This is… just a heckler’s veto, right? I mean, I have no way to tell whether those were insightful points that could have swayed the whole discussion, or whether they were inappropriate personal insults. Apparently all it takes is a couple people to coordinate on downvoting, and the very medium of discussion is taken away.
I have no interest in participating in a conversation on those terms. I am astonished anyone thinks it makes sense to even try.
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Moderators can decide how to handle these, but I expect that’s hard in practice now when almost all have left.
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It’s the moderation team’s responsibility to review those comments and un-hide them if they were not, in fact, inappropriate. However:
We have one moderator left, and they’re currently sick. The only thing left is this self-moderation.
Anyway, discussion of moderation features of the platform strikes me as off-topic. There’s meta discussion on this here: Hidden posts should be viewable - #6 by colemickens
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