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The first time I was a mod on a forum (2001) I deleted a single post from, and temp banned a known troll harassing another user... I was removed as a mod so fast it made my head spin, and was talked to about it all...
Turns out a small forum ran by a bunch of nerds (I mean that affectionately) in the early 2000's was pretty pro-free speech.
Don't think just because -you- would ban someone for criticism that it's "normal," especially while unironically using the word "normies" in the next sentence.
That's the only kind of forum to be that then.
What are you blabbering about, I've never banned anyone at all except for obvious spammers.
"Removed as a mod" is something weird really. Apparently you mean that you were a single topic mod or something like that.
At least I don't remember that being a common thing then. Someone would start a forum, attract first friends, then other users, and then some of the friends would become mods.
This is a cultural argument, though, I'm talking about Russian-speaking web, maybe English-speaking parts were nicer, but I'm not sure I'd believe that - I see all the same around, on Reddit and here (it's really much better here, though) and everywhere.
Okay, I could and should have just stopped there, bhuuuut...
That's pretty telling, regarding the stance you're taking... That being said; everyone else is talking about a site owned and run in the US.
You are exactly blabbering when you say things outta your ass about what others do which you can't possibly know. So you should have just stopped earlier.
How ignorant one should be to think that.
FFS, you are behaving in the exact way I described, and you are not even a mod now.
I think you were not very different from what I describe back then, just not being self-conscious now.
I don't understand anything you just said
Too bad.