The comment was unnecessarily rude and antagonistic — it didn’t meet the minimum bar for civility. (See the Forum norm “Stay civil, at the minimum”.)
In isolation, this comment is a mild norm violation. But having a lot of mildly-bad (unnecessarily antagonistic) comments often corrodes the quality of Forum discourse more than a single terrible comment.
It’s hard to know how to respond to someone who seems to have a pattern of posting such comments. There’s often no “smoking gun” comment that clearly deserves a ban. That’s why we have our current setup — we generally give warnings and then proceed to bans if nothing changes.
I think we’ve not been responding to cases like this enough, recently. At the same time, I wish we could figure out a more collaborative approach than our current one, and it’s possible that a 1-month warning was too long — we’re discussing it in the moderation team.
(Note: some parts of this comment, as with some other comments that moderators post, were written by other moderators, but I personally believe what I’m posting. This seems worth flagging, given that I’m sharing these opinions as my own. I don’t know if all the people on the moderation team agree with everything as I put it here.)
Sorry for the late reply,
The comment was unnecessarily rude and antagonistic — it didn’t meet the minimum bar for civility. (See the Forum norm “Stay civil, at the minimum”.)
In isolation, this comment is a mild norm violation. But having a lot of mildly-bad (unnecessarily antagonistic) comments often corrodes the quality of Forum discourse more than a single terrible comment.
It’s hard to know how to respond to someone who seems to have a pattern of posting such comments. There’s often no “smoking gun” comment that clearly deserves a ban. That’s why we have our current setup — we generally give warnings and then proceed to bans if nothing changes.
I think we’ve not been responding to cases like this enough, recently. At the same time, I wish we could figure out a more collaborative approach than our current one, and it’s possible that a 1-month warning was too long — we’re discussing it in the moderation team.
(Note: some parts of this comment, as with some other comments that moderators post, were written by other moderators, but I personally believe what I’m posting. This seems worth flagging, given that I’m sharing these opinions as my own. I don’t know if all the people on the moderation team agree with everything as I put it here.)