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There is no reason to ban any of it, what needs to be patrolled is behavior, there are certain tactics which can be used to manipulate in many ways and those are what moderation should be chasing, disingenuous actors.
Also The only profanity is blasphemy, the only swear words are spoken in vows and oaths, the only curse words are in wishing ill on others, pejoratives and foul language exist but these euphemisms with allusions to biblical definitions of sin are an invention of english nobility, literally duchesses from 4-5 centuries ago who deemed themselves speech police.
Point well taken. What’s the strategy for moderating behavior or disingenuous tactics?
I have a list of tactics laying around you just need to train mods and users to recognize tactics: consensus cracking, concern trolling, sliding, raiding, gas lighting, just to name a few, reading intent is a skill you can hone but bans should be mod vote based.
Most of these tricks go back to saul alinsky's writings.
And the trouble, of course, is that depending on the observer, any of those things could be taken as authentic discourse. Hence, it's subjective. The list you have given, if applied on the basis of some 'objective' grounds, is just a way to create a complete echo chamber, which is what people tend to do.
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