Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on Today at 05:56:54 PM

Quote from: Welsh on Today at 11:50:02 AM

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 11:19:56 AM

I don't think it should be that difficult. There are plenty of people in P&S who post absolute nonsense, but at least manage to mostly stay on topic and can make a coherent post, even if the content of that post is moronic. And then there are people like BADecker and Tash who just post low quality and off topic trash which contributes absolutely nothing to any thread.

We delete off topic posts and posts which add nothing in other boards. Why not P&S?

I do agree somewhat, there's definitely a few cases of pretty straight forward off topic replies, or just genuinely low quality posts. Although, I do think you need someone in the P&S section that probably doesn't care all too much about politics, otherwise personal beliefs, and views can get in the way.

FH was a left-wing Bernie bro, and IIRC was a supporter of communism. That is far from moderate, and he did care about politics.

IMO, it is more important for the P&S mod to be able to moderate in a way that is viewpoint neutral, and will not allow his views on topics of discussion interfear with his decision making.

As I stated he was a buddy of mine and while he was definitely further left than I agree with, he is a good person who absolutely did not support communism. He just believed in bigger government than I see being ideal personally. Theymos and him didn’t agree on much, but still hired him which imo says a lot about them both. I had talks with HF about this very topic and I believe he truly tried to remain impartial as possible. It stressed him out with all the meta threads against him as it was always “HF is impartial etc etc”. Truth is mods delete stuff all the time. I’ve had plenty of stuff deleted I didn’t agree with but it’s a tough job and I know they do their best.

However I agree with you. I think, as Loyce always says, a Sweden type would prob be ideal. Then no one can
claim political bias in Meta.