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darkhawk said:And they need to be pointed in the right direction, too. 🙂
(Isn't that exactly what a moderator is supposed to do—provide guidance—rather than just acting like a kill switch for whoever happens to be speaking?)
I honestly have no clue what you mean by that—or rather, I can tell you what "proper direction" looks like to me.
To my mind, proper direction simply means—not causing harm.
That’s basically the only metric I use when deciding who is actually worth talking to (people who can actually manage to inspire me to take action 😁).
I don't see factions, I don't see left vs. right, black vs. white, Proustian intellectuals vs. simpletons, regionalists vs. "true Americans"... blah blah blah.
My goal is just to gauge someone's intentions as accurately as possible—because if it turns out their motives aren't terrible, then that's enough for me to think our future coexistence might actually work.
Along those lines, I really hate being herded into some kind of flock—mostly because, for as long as I've known myself, I've had zero patience for partisan spikes or that general "collective" smell of forced solidarity.
And let's be real: about 90 percent of the crowd still clinging to old-school ideologies on Facebook wouldn't function at all if they weren't busy targeting someone or complaining—with a tendency to make life a little more difficult whenever they happen to be active during the month.😁
The only thing you can do with people like that is water them and hope that time actually heals things.
As for my own "bias"... I guess I'm some kind of national soc... oops.🙂 I'm a realist—so, a national soc-realist.
Right now, I'm rooting for anyone capable of pulling more investment into this country.
(Isn't it the moderator's job to provide direction, rather than just acting as an off-switch for speakers?)
A moderator's job is, among other things, to cut out biased labels at the root—labels we've already seen a million times over.
And I'm certain the moderators would improve significantly if they were dealing with more responsible users.
Until then, everyone should probably work on their own approach.