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SB tried that; that is literally what Whitehall is/was, and it kinda turned into a severely bad joke.

"More mods" is sorta a perpetual solution-but-not, because people who can be trusted as mods do not exactly grow on trees. Especially since people who are highly active members tend to be highly opinionated, and while that's not a bad thing in and of itself, being able and willing to...

That's not the only meaning and I'm pretty sure you know it. Please stop being so dramatic and stick to the actual constructive substance of arguments.

No, this site is mischaracterized by those who dislike it as for aggressive right wing politics, with a handful of posters, none of whom are or were at any point staff, arguing that it "should" in fact belong exclusively or primarily to the hard right. Those posters were never more than a vocal...

This is literally the opposite of my point. Having separate accounts for official action is clearly aimed at preventing what you're claiming as opposed to facilitating it.

Let me point out that there's a non-sinister reason for mods/admins to have second accounts: it makes it absolutely clear when someone is acting in their official capacity as opposed to expressing their private, personal opinions, and avoids the issue of staff status giving undue tacit weight to...

I forgot a word -- I oppose blanket amnesty except for the new no-infractions-in-Politics rule.

I support reviewing past bans, but not granting past amnesty outside of the “no infractions” rule for Politics.

It probably isn't, no, but that doesn't stop them from putting it in the TOS.

Parler's "solution" to this -- and by sarcasm quotes I mean I think it's a really shitty idea -- is that they have very few restrictions on free speech, but the terms of service also include a clause stating that any user may be banned at any time even if they haven't broken any rules, and also...

Here is your vibro-lance, sir! Darths & Droids

I would suggest only splitting off subforums in situations where a highly contentious or disproportionately popular subset of one of the existing forums is basically taking over its "parent" space.