[Mod] Friday Open Forum - June 21, 2019

I'll be honest, it feels antagonistic. I said it at the time the rule change regarding metas was imposed, and I'm saying it again now - there's no trust possible in an environment where you have no clue if your voice is being heard or not, because what you say can simply vanish into the ether, because someone decided they disagreed with it. I can't help but believe there's a lot of personal mod opinion at play in what gets removed and what doesn't, even for regular posts, because I've seen some absolutely stomach-churning things get left up, and some get taken down, presumably for being over the line. Why can someone post something about wanting to rape a mentally handicapped individual, as I've actually seen on the sub before, yet not raise concerns that might fall on the other side of the line of certain mods' priorities?

I have a lot of frustrations with how the current mod team - inconsistently, in my view - applies the rules of the sub, and politely raising issues from time to time doesn't seem to work, really, given that the mod team has, in the past, been openly dismissive of large swathes of the sub, or downright abusive.

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