Can you say which norms the current comment breaks? I think it was not clear to me upon reading both the comment, and looking at the forum norms again.
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.)
The meaning of “simp” differs from place to place, but it’s not particularly civil and decidedly not in this context. I support a suspension action in light of the recent warning, but given the dissimilar type of violation maybe a week or two would have been sufficient.
Can you say which norms the current comment breaks? I think it was not clear to me upon reading both the comment, and looking at the forum norms again.
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.)
The meaning of “simp” differs from place to place, but it’s not particularly civil and decidedly not in this context. I support a suspension action in light of the recent warning, but given the dissimilar type of violation maybe a week or two would have been sufficient.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/19/health/what-is-simp-teen-slang-wellness/index.html