Comment by joe_mamba
2 hours ago
>Ban them. I also recommend making it explicit: your last rule should be “moderators have final discretion”.[...]
>[...] Many communities (especially on Reddit) have become echo chambers mainly because the mods are too happy to ban people for unspoken and/or vague rules
To me, it seems you're contradicting yourself here. In the first paragraph you suggest the solution to vague rules (mods having full authority), but then in the second paragraph you admit how that turns the platform into an echo chamber.
The point is to have discretion but use it rarely. Reddit echo chambers use it way too often.
It’s not contradictory but unfortunately impossible to fully explain, otherwise it would be explicit rules. When someone acts borderline, you must intuit when they’re acting in good or bad faith. Hence I think a first warning, then short ban, is necessary for anyone not obviously breaking a rule; because the former will be careful, but the latter will keep acting borderline again and again, avoiding exactly what you warned about while still causing malice.