Moderation philosophy posts started out as an exercise by myself to put down some of my thoughts on running communities that I'd learned over the years. As they continued I started to more heavily involve the other admins in the writing and brainstorming. This most recent post involved a lot of moderator voices as well, which is super exciting! This is a community, and we want the voices at all levels to represent the community and how it's run.

This is probably the first of several posts on moderation philosophy, how we make decisions, and an exercise to bring additional transparency to how we operate.

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[–] Creesch 12 points 2 years ago

so I’m not too worried about “the fluff principle”.

Do note that this principle doesn't just apply to purely image based submissions and comments. Maybe I should have picked a different example for what I was attempting to say. But in general, it applies to all sorts of content that is easy to digest and easy to agree with. It is why I mentioned the defederated instances I read about as often people that are actively promoting bigoted views communicate in ways that stands out to other bigots. If you have then a heavy influx of outside users these sort of comments and submissions can easily get boosted into view without your own community being all that actively involved.

Having said that, I think you as a team already have plenty of experience with this and are at the very least aware of it. I still figured I'd mention it.