On Content Removal
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On Content Removal # Harmful, bigoted, or generally distasteful content isn’t as frequent on our site as it is elsewhere, but these do still appear enough that we sometimes get questions about why certain comments are left up. This post is meant to help you understand a bit about how we moderate. As stated in our sidebar and in tons of other places on our site, Beehaw aspires to be(e) a safe, friendly, and diverse place.

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.

  •  alyaza [they/she]   ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) English
    5•1 year ago

    i’d just pop in to note that it’s kind of bizarre we’re even seriously debating whether this is a “liberal sanitized space” when:

    1. comments expressing the same sentiments that were removed are all over that thread and not removed, and;
    2. when several liberals in that thread were also removed for being unproductive and you can see them in the mod log

    if this is a “liberal sanitized space” then we’re not doing a good job of enforcing that, lol

    •  StrayCatFrump   ( @StrayCatFrump@beehaw.org ) English
      1•1 year ago

      Again, incivility to a single user is a no-no, but incivility to anyone and everyone present who might not support Democrats is absolutely a-ok, apparently.

      And the liberals’ comments were removed because they were in the comment tree under my own reply, and the whole thing was removed.