Hey all,
Moderation philosophy posts started out as an exercise by myself to put down some of my thoughts on running communities that I’d learned over the years. As they continued I started to more heavily involve the other admins in the writing and brainstorming. This most recent post involved a lot of moderator voices as well, which is super exciting! This is a community, and we want the voices at all levels to represent the community and how it’s run.
This is probably the first of several posts on moderation philosophy, how we make decisions, and an exercise to bring additional transparency to how we operate.
Make that neurodivergent, disabled, and abused for enough time to have received pushback on all subjects. At this point I feel like the only safe course of action is to shut up and disappear, since I’m definitely not going to go to “free speech” places to get more of the same. Anyway, sorry for dragging this out, and guess we’ll just see how it goes.