> They just replied with "no, I will not change, fuck off".
As a former Rust moderator, this, so much. So many people don't see this part, where you reach out to folks and spend long grueling hours trying to get them to correct their behavior, precisely because no non-psychopath wants to drop the ban hammer on anyone. (Unless it's for obvious spammers and drive-by trolls.)
And the people saying "well I'm not suggesting do nothing, but just use better tools." Well, yeah, great, let's use better tools. Who's going to get GitHub to implement them? Or whatever other platform you're using? Some platforms have better support for this kind of tooling than others, but GitHub's is (last time I checked) pretty bad and coarse. It is slowly getting better over time. It used to be virtually non-existent.
But in the mean time, the people actually in the trenches doing the hard work of moderation have to do something. If the platform doesn't have this sort of idealistic tooling that's easy to navel gaze about on HN, then they have to do the best with what they have.
As a former Rust moderator, this, so much. So many people don't see this part, where you reach out to folks and spend long grueling hours trying to get them to correct their behavior, precisely because no non-psychopath wants to drop the ban hammer on anyone. (Unless it's for obvious spammers and drive-by trolls.)
And the people saying "well I'm not suggesting do nothing, but just use better tools." Well, yeah, great, let's use better tools. Who's going to get GitHub to implement them? Or whatever other platform you're using? Some platforms have better support for this kind of tooling than others, but GitHub's is (last time I checked) pretty bad and coarse. It is slowly getting better over time. It used to be virtually non-existent.
But in the mean time, the people actually in the trenches doing the hard work of moderation have to do something. If the platform doesn't have this sort of idealistic tooling that's easy to navel gaze about on HN, then they have to do the best with what they have.