We've dialed "dog whistles" way back -- thanks for the feedback.

Just remember every time you tweak the defaults, the 90% of your site owners using those defaults suddenly have a significant shift in their moderation policy that they are themselves unaware of.

(I moderated a vBulletin forum in the 1990s. This shit gets really, really, really hard, and no one is ever really happy with it.)

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NickHodges0702 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sorry -- should have been more clear: We are shifting the defaults on the demo site, not on respectify itself.

Thanks for a great point, though. Finding the best defaults will be very important, and we can't tweak it like that very often if at all.

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NickHodges0702 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>>(I moderated a vBulletin forum in the 1990s. This shit gets really, really, really hard, and no one is ever really happy with it.<<

I feel that. I used to moderate the Object Pascal Compuserve forum. That was hard enough!

	▲	ceejayoz 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This one was for gamers. I’m pretty sure we created a few budding lawyers out of some high schoolers.