While moderation has been stricter in the past, it is worth noting that after each court cases have been won and other significant decisions announced, moderation on MN has changed.
It could be staff.
It could also be that less mass reporting is happening as the all the
‘you are all just far right wingers/haters/ phobic/old dinosaurs/ the minority’ posts have been shown to be just projection.
Either way, there are less of those.
Now we get more of the ‘I agree with some things, but you are all so extreme, far right wing, the ‘wrong sort of feminist’ whining arguments.
And less deletions and less thread moves.
What has been noticeable this week is, with these horrific cases being exposed (and they have kept coming) even those poster’s have now disappeared.
They realise they would be seen as complicit if they tone policed, if they tried in any way to dismiss this was happening.
You only have to look at what has happened to Susie McCabe on Debate Night after it was pointed out that her words defended Bryson. That she was so caught up in her moral superiority, she inadvertently defended Bryson being in any type of female prison while defending pronouns!
So many others. So much so that by yesterday, no one who posted earlier in the week who still tried the ‘segregated’ line, felt that they could present any argument. Because none came and posted.
It is fucked up that it got to this point.
Now we even have women prominently pushing back on pronoun fuckwittery.
I think modding on MN has actually reflected the changes in society’s acceptance on this. I am so grateful for this threads this weekend being left unmoved.
Oh, and what else it shows…. Is that mature arsed posters CAN fucking scroll past a thread they don’t want to engage with.
Who the fuck knew they could do it!
They should be reminded of that every single fucking time the ‘not another [insert term] thread!’ is used.