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There is a difference between moderation, which refers to curating threads to stay on topic, and policing, by which I mean kicking / banning / no-platforming someone who says things we don't like, and the associated witchhunts and fashjacketing that go hand-in-hand.

I am not implying that thecollective is policing these threads by moderating them, I am saying that a conversation about the IRC being fashy because it doesn't blacklist people for using words is a conversation about language policing. the openness of the IRC regarding who can join and say what solves some problems and creates others. People don't have to like it, they can go to reddit for a safe space. But acting like it's somehow okay to call someone an "attention whore moron" for not moderating language to their liking - - talk about bad faith!