General Moderation Topic

[orenwolf]

Regarding the discussion in the affected topic, I’ve clarified the guidelines about encouraging violence here:

New moderation policy: Enhanced policing of calls for violence or harm to communities

We already have Guidelines that restrict the posting of replies that encourage violence. To provide clarity, this includes statements that war is inevitable or that certain groups will simply have to shoulder the burden of conflict or otherwise endure that sort of trauma. There is no positive discussion to be had by telling others that it would be good if community X, ethnic group Y, or location Z faced conflict as an inevitability. These are real people who are suffering. If you want to have…

We will have a zero tolerance policy towards “Let them fight” or “suffering will help” - type comments in the future, regardless of how civilly they are phrased.