I can do a poll for this if need be but thought I'd just grab a quick opinion instead to feel it out first.
There are a few smear campaigns against us that love disrupting and derailing our conversations.
We need to focus, but Freedom of Speech is certainly one of our values...
Should our official thread be moderated or unmoderated?
IMO it should be moderated to a certain extent. I don't mind people being critical of trumpcoin at all and they have the right to voice their opinions here. But at a certain point it stops being criticism and it starts turning in to downright trolling, there's no discussion to be had there. Sometimes it's hard to draw the line between voicing opinions and trolling but often it isn't (e.g. seige his shitposting).
Then there's also annoying posts that use bold and have a massive font for example, I see no need for those so a bit of moderation wouldn't hurt in those cases either.
This is my opinion as well. Moderate moderation with a ruleset that only removes blatant trolling and personal attacks against individuals, while still allowing anyone to voice valid opinions and concerns about our mission and our politics.
I like the way you put it... Filter shitposting while allowing and encouraging productive debates.
Does anyone disagree with this?