Piper ThunstromAdvice for community managers:
Use the Olivia Hill rule.
It's surprisingly easy to enforce:
Fascists get really upset and will talk to you about why the rule is bad.
You then ban them.
That's it, that's all the work it takes!
Vincent Sparks 🔜 Furlingame@pathunstrom i have been called a fascist for telling people to vote for kamala harris instead of jill stein
horsedreamer@AVincentInSpace @pathunstrom and would you want to be in spices run by those people? the rule cuts both ways.
@horsedreamer @pathunstrom of course not. but i would like such people not to pretend that it is a common sense rule that only ever excludes fascists and not just people the moderators are too tired to be civil to.
otherwise, everyone would adopt it, and, well, very quickly, the internet would have a shocking number of "fascists".
@AVincentInSpace mmm... and yet the effectiveness of the rule bears out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm too old to try to make other people correct.
@horsedreamer i won't deny that banning anyone you're too tired to be civil to does reduce your workload as a moderator