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Comment by otterley

9 days ago

I downvoted it because it bears little relation to this story, not because I disagreed with it. It's basically complaining that they're not getting enough love from other members. The mods don't quash comments merely because they convey dissenting opinions; they quash them when they become toxic to the community.

I guess you could say the comment is conflating the mod team and the community.

I think the community can be pretty susceptible to groupthink and hyper-conformity, and there are tons of legitimate criticisms around that. But it's true that usually the mod team won't suffer directly from that, from what I've seen.

  • One person’s “groupthink and hyper-conformity” is a statistician’s normal distribution.

    • The words I chose are specifically meant to highlight the downsides.

      1. Groupthink has a negative connotation of the downsides baked in.

      2. "Hyper" conformity (or hyper anything) is already saying that it is too much.

      I think it's well known and appreciated that without diversity of thought and opinion, a group or organization makes possibly locally optimized, but poor decisions.

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