User blog comment:Obi the LEGO Fan/Moderation Practices/@comment-5780776-20160306212949

Thanks for this, most of it is pretty clear and I think we've been doing an okay job at fulfilling it, and really: it feels like the less we stress and nit-pick about the tiny things, the smoother everything runs, which, of course, abides with common sense, because we're not making problems when there's not really one there.

The only difficult part is the humour one, because if someone's teasing is irritating yet not racist, sexist, homophobic, etc., it's often difficult to take any action without an uproar being caused, with the perpetrator returning to create another scene and their comrades armed to the teeth to defend them. I'd say that in that case the mods need to be more authoritative, but it's not right to just push one's power around to remove the backlash by basically saying "stop talking about it because we did what was good so stop talking about it," is it?

I think mod reaction to "civilian" reaction to mod actions has been an issue for a long time, but if we start suppressing them, that's really very totalitarian.