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>"Content moderation" - the only use of being an Internet janitor is this: shaping a community to be in some way OR doing the bare minimum. My view is that doing the minimum is really the only particularly useful thing. Shaping a community is pretty much a waste of time and useless. I suppose it is useful in making various Internet communities different from each other, but too often than not I see it being overly-used to make a hugbox. D
I disagree. I think a lot of people have different comfort levels and preferences. For example of the handful of anons here there is a distaste that has been expressed from of the sharper edges of it even if it is not outright banned in a Equestria Daily sense. If someone was constantly avatarfaging morbidly obese or diperponies that were technically within the rules (say, nothing NSFW about them) or posting a bunch of such things spoilered in threads that it didn't make sense to (say the comic thread), that would be stopped here. There was something of a brief "civil war" well, attempted take over of 8kun's/pone and arguing on 8chan.moe's /pone/, both of which /endpone/ is associated with over the spoiling of images at all'. For you or me, that might seem sensible enough, for that small group, it wasn't and they tried to splinter (or in reality, take over, they were splintering from /mlp/ and tried to occupy) and I think that is fine to do so on their own. Polarization and centralization strip us of choice and force a lot of people who don't get along to be sitting next to each other and fight it in stupid power struggles on remnant forums or older websites or fighting constantly in the area that is social media with Discords being the only slight escape. Which even then is just a bunch of people going from the ballroom where everybody hangouts back to their own run down apparent that still is owned by the same land lord who might kick them out for any reason if they make too much (of the wrong kind of) a ruckus.


>the bare minimum is doing stuff like deleting images and videos that are, on their face, illegal in most or all countries. Moderating text-only user-generated content is pretty much always a waste of time. I could write more on this, but this is already TL;DR as it is.
I am not against places that exist like this though and they do have their place. You aren't wrong to have a aversion when you see such arbitrary rules like Sunset Shimmer even in pony form on one end and social justice types on the other trying to find the faintest excuse to ban someone who is just slightly out of line with whatever their meme of the moment is (right can be just arbitrary, I miss the old civil libertarian types, I may not be that but they would often be the levelheaded adults in the room).

>"G-grow up! Politics is everywhere!" Doesn't have to be, it's up to the decision of whoever to talk about it. I'll keep being annoyed by it or hopefully just ignore it in the future.
Politics is everywhere, BUT, what happened with the logic of many over the last 10 to 15 years was the loss of subtext. Highly charged art, messages, and campaigns for X causes always existed, but so too did messages that tried to make you think, art that had that something as a background theme, and some attempts at persuasion. It is very different present something as a question or in the background as a theme versus telling you what to think and then saying your evil if you don't.