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> Was this process "moderation"?

That’s up to you. Do you go around saying “I like posting on LWN. I’m a big LWN poster. That’s where I do my best posts”? If so you probably already call the staff there “da mods” and wouldn’t need clarification.

> what you write on Stack Overflow is not a "post" in the first place

Yes it is. That website is overflowing with posts. It’s almost entirely posts aside from the bits you use to navigate between the posts.

> Would you use that term for a Wikipedia article?

I am receiving news that mods have taken to moderating more than just posts nowadays. They are moderating chat messages and wiki pages, and I’m being told that some of them have even confusingly decided to call themselves “admins,” it is a site to behold

Trying to figure out if you’re talking about users or admins here

> actions of the community (what we call "curation")

You know that users are going to call anything that happens to their posts on any website “moderation” right, and after decades of that being the norm that’s what the word means

> saves my brainpower for situations that truly need it.

Like posting on hacker news?

> This should be an embarrassing moment for the r/seattle mods, but I somewhat doubt it will be.

Imagine the shame of blocking the spread of malware before attempting to appease somebody that’s falsely accusing of you hysterics.

Every day I wake up and shake my head that another mod on the internet did something without my, the Grand Regent of Online, say so

Could’ve forgotten to say “make no mistakes”

> Now replace wealth with intelligence, and mercantilism with cognitive mercantilism

I love when it’s clear somebody wrote “Write an intelligent blog post that sounds smart. Reference this book and AI. Make no mistakes.” to a chat bot

Our law enforcement heroes are trained to tactically “take shelter” but when one does so strategically it is branded a “crime”

Who is to say he wasn’t in fear for his life when he stole the house? Maybe the house committed a crime and he was detaining it. Civilians just don’t know the challenges faced by our boys in blue

cowlevel is saying that they know what a down payment is but also thinks that you can’t buy a house that costs more than the amount of money you have in the bank

That he is being prosecuted for this is a sad example of why officers need stronger qualified immunity for snap decisions made in the line of duty

“Protections against compelled speech are for numbskulls” I write, sweat dripping from my brow “Extortion is good you idiot, read a book” and the crowd goes wild. Michelangelo wipes the tears from his eyes and begins chiseling my face onto Mount Genius

“To be clear, you’re saying something that’s impossible to infer from what you wrote because I made it up?” lmao

Why would they try to run a real business when they can publish blogs about how spooky the product is and then live out the plot of the 1994 film Blank Check