Thoughts: on community moderation

I feel like a big problem that communities, both physical and online, are currently struggling with is a variation on the “Nazi bar” problem. Michael B. Tager wrote the following thread on social media back in 2020: I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”