Conservatives of Wrong Planet

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how does that fit the time you(Ad) stated me having issues with being a stepmother,
in a topic of a stepmother who searched to ally us with her plans to sceme a mother out of custody, because autism, that even her new loveproject, the father, wouldn't want to do? which went into a fit between those seeing a bad intention and others clinging on the alleged drugabuse of prescibed drugs by the mother as a valid reason to second that plan
but i was having issues, really
i was only thinking don't hop on that bus because it has autism written on it

I appreciate that it is a job that you took upon yourself, we all have are own things that we are dealing with and I understand the limitations beyond your control as a mod you have to put up with too, it's thankless and I imagine pretty frustrating at times. My issue is consistency, inconsistent enforcement is really the problem and what breeds accusations of bias and paranoia. It seems very arbitrary and with mods participating is discussion and debating at the same time you are going to see a lot of people think they are being persecuted. If it's not possible to consistently enforce a rule then the rule probably needs to be reinterpreted, this forum has an odd lack of moderators compared to other forums of its size. Smaller places have moderators for every specific board/team of global mods/team of admins, I don't know what is so hard about finding people here to take a position. Perhaps give it to me, now the reaction to that would be funny! I don't think I am qualified since I believe you folks have me on double secret probation behind the scenes.

Saying you don't miss somebody is really not an attack, he doesn't elaborate or say it in a mean way. It's just a matter of fact about how he feels, it's not like even said good riddance or some other preoperative way.

Why do you need to be an Aspie to be a moderator? I think it would be great to have some non-Aspies moderate this forum. I've been fortunate in that I've usually had "more normal" people I could just ask about stuff--but many Aspies don't have such friends.

I think as a community we need to decide what sort of community we want, and how we want mods to act within that community. This is particularly true of PPR and L&D.

I do think the current PPR set up is probably unsustainable. Frankly the rules are breached in a large portion of posts and nobody is happy about being told that they've broken them.

Do we want PPR to be a slinging match where users can vent out their long-standing grudges with little fear of reprisal? Do we want it to be a place you can only post with reputably-sourced information?

I'm particularly concerned about "implications" and such. Different people can have different interpretations of someone's words. For example, when Adamantium made a thread talking about racism, Angela perceived it as an attack on her. Darmok's ongoing thread about "leftist violence and fraud" has lots of leftists feeling prickled. It's possible this was intended or wasn't (and it seems like a place where ones political views are particularly likely to bias interpretation). And frankly if we can't attack communism in case it is seen as an attack on the communist who just posted then that makes political discussion almost impossible.

WrongPlanet is a particularly difficult place to try this sort of clampdown on implications. Some of us are very skilled with words and will quite deliberately skate around any rules without quite breaking them. I know I've deliberately done this in the past, and I know Dox does it because he's publicly enquired about loopholes before (and I think that fed into the views of the mod team on that warning). I'm sure you can all think of other users who phrase posts in a way that seems to be attacking a user but is technically attacking an argument or viewpoint. Others don't have that sort of ability and will cause offence and break the rules even when they don't mean to. There's a case that this happens to sly, who seems to be quite politically moderate but gets people's bristles up because he doesn't have tact.

Alex is not likely to change his view on racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or ableism (three of those are written into the rules, one is clear from precedent and the last is pretty much the point of the site). I would suggest that maybe a blanket ban on advocating for white nationalism might also be useful for the health of the site.

Just realised I'm not going anywhere but hopefully there's some food for thought there. I don't claim to have all the answers by any means and I'm not speaking as a mod.

Note: Quote-threading and quote-spinning truncated to keep my post concise/relevant/specific.

Also related to the very first and original post of this thread... liberals simply out-number conservatives in the general population as a whole due to the massive liberal-bias of the «mainstream» corporate-controlled media-outlets. Conservative-minority is not unique to any particular forums (and is very common to most on-line outlets in addition to the fact that forces are always actively at work to censor/suppress anything that is able to logically expose any flaws/hypocrisies amongst the liberal-agendas). I usually just stick this sign up if I come across anything that seems to be some kind of Authoritarian Thought-Police...

Thanks for the perspective. It is undoubtedly true that my verbal skills are more advanced at times than my facility for interpersonal communication.

My apologies if my reply was over the top. I was disturbed by Dox's decision to include cracks about troll sites, doxxing, and creative murder methods in his responses. If the pitch of my response was over the top, I regret it.