Talk:General Game Discussion/@comment-7011711-20130321004643/@comment-1321146-20130321055248

That is a difficult issue. Moderation is too often seen purely as a provocation by the people it would be directed against. The backlash of incorporating moderation might well become worse than the problem moderation was intended to fight.

For now, I believe the best course of action is to ask people not to use toxic and hateful language, or simply ignoring their comments. The comment section is, after all, not the primary content of the site.

On the other hand, a zero-tolerance policy works best if it is in effect before the community in general devolves into the inevitable comment-section-fighting.

Mods are possible, I believe, but are often seen as power-hungry censoring fascists instead of helpful volunteers, by the people they would need to use actions against.

Instead, I suggest that several normal members kindly ask the poster to refrain from specific terms/language issues, and allow them to post what they want otherwise. Or that we ignore their post completely (very hard policy to enforce). Either would be less provocative to them, I think.