The comment was unnecessarily rude and antagonistic ā it didnāt meet the minimum bar for civility. (See the Forum norm āStay civil, at the minimumā.)
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.
Itās hard to know how to respond to someone who seems to have a pattern of posting such comments. Thereās often no āsmoking gunā comment that clearly deserves a ban. Thatās why we have our current setup ā we generally give warnings and then proceed to bans if nothing changes.
I think weāve 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 itās possible that a 1-month warning was too long ā weāre 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 Iām posting. This seems worth flagging, given that Iām sharing these opinions as my own. I donāt 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 ā it didnāt meet the minimum bar for civility. (See the Forum norm āStay civil, at the minimumā.)
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.
Itās hard to know how to respond to someone who seems to have a pattern of posting such comments. Thereās often no āsmoking gunā comment that clearly deserves a ban. Thatās why we have our current setup ā we generally give warnings and then proceed to bans if nothing changes.
I think weāve 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 itās possible that a 1-month warning was too long ā weāre 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 Iām posting. This seems worth flagging, given that Iām sharing these opinions as my own. I donāt know if all the people on the moderation team agree with everything as I put it here.)