Should I moderate communities like a bot? (lemm.ee)

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I made this post saying that we should bend community rules sometime, but it get downvoted, so I think most Lemmy users disagree. I'm kinda confused - should I remove posts and ban users if they break rules even slightly?

For example, this post on !internetisbeautiful@lemm.ee doesn't actually fit the community rules, but I didn't delete it because it was made in good faith.

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[-] sag@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago

Yea, I agree you can't please everyone. I have seen in so many subreddit rules that we are running dictatorship not democracy xD.

Also, Entire this rule bending come to my mind after you got banned in touhou community. But thanks.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 22 hours ago

Exactly.

So the best way IMO is to do whatever you think is right (and like another commenter said, make the only real rule be "don't make me ban you"), and as long as you aren't being insane, you'll probably be pleasing the majority of users just by coincidence.

I'd add that you should always be ready to change a decision, based on new events and arguments, or if you missed something. The biggest reason I think some mods go a little insane, is that they try to be infallible, but when they inevitably fail, they try to pretend the decision was correct anyway.

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