So is this staunchness restricted to vaccines within a certain development timeframe and if so where does your staunchness border lie? Or are you just ideologically pro-polio?

I was solo mod on a small provincial gme sub.

I shut it down 2 days after giving notice that that was happening and might be extended then after the spez lizard made the ‘this will pass’ statement I opened it to state I was out, that I was experimenting with Lemmy, that the sub would remain on restricted and that because it contained valuable useful info I’d leave it up as is and further if anyone wanted to take my role to DM me. I’ll check back in a week.

A ‘Time out’ sub called, ‘A bag of dicks’ containing a roll call of temporarily detained members?

might as well have fun with it. :)

Moderation is a form of parenting, at an open arms orphanage that accepts toxic pathological psychopaths. It’s a tough gig.

I used to mod a NZ sub, small enough, under 2000, solo-mod. Banned 5 people over 2 years. It’s hard to quantify ‘toxic’ but whether it’s a conceit or a gift I simply trust I know it when I see it.

I went dark over the Steve Huffman spez behaviours and have extended the shutdown given his response thus far. I’m personally less than enthusiastic about modding as a group dynamic exercise.

I’m the sort of person who would have to be paid to take others seriously. That said the best moderation comes from larger groups with tight rules [like some of the hard science subs] Studied moderation since the internet began in sociological, psychological, game theory, studied all the fallacies etc etc.

Decades ago there was a site called NewsVine that operated with a code of honour which surprisingly worked in that it allowed people with conflicting views the ability to converse.

I don’t think a proper wheels yet been invented re a moderation template.
Just build something and tweak it as it goes I guess. Good luck.

order his troops to try…yep sounds about right. “Hey…Um…Troops…could you try?”