Jon Pretty

That's nice, but /r/Scala and the likes are purported to be welcoming and open, rather than fascistic and arbitrary which they turn out to be by trial. People are invited on false premise, build up the community with their posts and interactions, and then 1/4

they are thrown away when they fall off the party line. But those interactions and efford belong to them, rather than some childish person installed in a golden throne. There is simply no way to migrate this as data. Your argument, "just fork it" is so misguided in this case, 2/4

i don't even know where I would start, so I'm just not going to argue this out with you. It would take excessive time to do this which I just don't want to gift to you. I just can't take it as a serious suggestion, 3/4

and honestly find it shows a shocking lack of experience with running healthy communities. It is my belief you shouldn't be expressing this sort of idea as a viable suggestion. I'm going to ignore further suggestions and arguments to this theme. 4/4

Again, I don't think you need to be escalating to terms like "fascism". It doesn't bring anything useful to the discussion, and if you're mentally pigeonholing Reddit moderators with the likes of Hitler, it's extremely wrongheaded. Save those descriptions for actual fascists.

yeah - fascism is not limited to just one country, just in 1943, and i stand by my use of the word.

No, but using that description is a little confidence trick to make the actions of a forum moderator seem much worse than they really were. The more you repeat it, the more anyone reading will come to believe it. I can see through it, and I don't think it's helpful.