So let's chat about the StackExchange community real quick.https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/996833004789141505 …
See the ominous moderator comment posted on my answer here after the swarm of comments from concern trolls got deleted. Hope I'm just reading too much into it but... https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/14277/not-having-to-explain-my-reasons-for-wanting-to-keep-my-last-name/14301?noredirect=1#comment59121_14301 …pic.twitter.com/rTxKE8oR6K
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Yes. Yes you are reading too much into it.
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I'm not particularly upset with this moderator (tho maybe some ppl whose constructive comments were deleted as a result of late-coming concern trolls might be)...
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...but asking for an answer that many people already found helpful to be strengthened after deleting a bunch of stuff, rather than asking trolls to stop trolling, seemed at least mildly ominous to me.
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Eh, not really. Interpersonal Skills SE has some pretty strict rules about backing up your answers; that's orthogonal to whether or not a given answer is highly upvoted or not. In this case, the trolling *was* stopped (and the people involved may have received a mod warning)...
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...but that the concern "this answer may not be sufficiently backed up" was expressed in a less-than-acceptable manner doesn't necessarily mean the concern itself is invalid.
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That really was not the commenters' concern. Their concern was that strategies on shutting down sexist microaggressions had a platform.
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Moderators selectively adopting this concern only for answers that get attacked by trolls does exactly what the trolls want - chills effort to provide good information with threat that the effort might be wasted.
End of conversation
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