Comment by goles

Ah that makes sense, as “see: ‘by:dang [$topic]’” is a pretty frequent sight, thanks for the explaination.

>It’s interesting to see how different users react to reading such a set of comments…

I’ve noticed this myself and I’ve always been surprised at the wide variety of users that fall into either of these buckets. You sort of expect this from new(er) accounts. But some of the arguments from created: ~2000’s, karma: 20,000+ accounts in detached threads are wild.

I suspect this comes from a lot of moderation actually being quite transparent, but not obvious. If one has any interest they can actually go learn a lot w.r.t. moderation. But zero information is forced unless one goes looking or eventually runs afoul.

In the lack of a story, it’s easy to invent a lot of assumptions about what is done and why. People inevitably see the invented assumptions of others and repeat them.

Or perhaps there are some topics where its so close to home that any slight, real or perceived, makes it impossible to be reasoned with.