@Turtwig_B, I disagree with multiple things you have said, and agree with you on some points and I can provide proof in a moment. First off, I think lack of moderation is a part of the issue, but DEFINITELY not all or a majority of the problem since these issues have existed long before we arrived at this point, and I definitely don’t think the issue is that we have had bad staff/moderators either, we haven’t had “bad staff” in years, staff with bad communications skills maybe but definitely not bad staff overall. If lack of staff were major problem we also wouldn’t have had so much inner staff drama over the years, this is why I think lack of communication between staff is probably the bigger issue overall, and is absolutely one of the bigger contributing factors to how the staff team got so small. Like I said in Add a Rant/Salt Channel in PMU Discord - #13 by Demetrius I have said I have seen prismatic fail to handle these “explosions” and I refuse to blame him entirely, I blame the system and position he was put into, and know he was trying his hardest, if it was him who was the issue it would just have been him failing to control this “explosions” but it hasn’t just been him, it’s been several staff over the years, when it gets that far it can’t be a singular person responsible or a singular lack of people. I think vagueness of the rules, and lack of communication are the main problems in the staffs ability to proper execute punishment, and vagueness of the rules, is even a product of lack of communication, I talked with Andy years ago, back when population of staff certainly wasn’t as problematic as today, and he said if I remember correctly he was trying to issue changes and overall fix the rules, many of my suggestions fall so inline with what @shadowlucario50 says in The Problem with PMU's Rules, Andy might even read it and assume we are the same person, haha, jokes aside, I think that posting them and discussing them like Shadow did is something I regret not doing and should have done a long time ago, and I can’t agree more with. Moving on to some of the other things, Mini-moding is as
Bullying is bullying, attempting to fight fire with fire is NEVER justified, and I only brought it up as a separate thing, as it is technically harassment and also libel if it isn’t actually true or against the rules, is probably the most violated rule and not punished rule in all of PMU. It doesn’t matter if you think it’s justified, harassment and libel ILLEGAL in most states and countries, public mini-moding violates basic human rights and the fact that it goes on at all is I think due to mixture of favoritism (albeit sub-conscience) and vagueness.
Without mini-moding, and with proper staff conduct it’s impossible to find out who reports who, thus contradicting your own argument.
Mini-moding falls under bullying, once again I don’t understand your point on this, telling people to defy the coronavirus protocol is either harassment or forcing a political stance depending on context, that I understand, but referencing a “racist crime statistic” is physically impossible statistics physically can’t be racist, they aren’t sentient, or an opinion, they can be used for racist arguments sure, those are opinions, but as long as that wasn’t attached anything demeaning, and weren’t repeated after someone told them to stop, it’s not actually hurting anyone? It depends on context, and without a direct quote, I fail to understand what you are saying here.
So if it’s minor why should people be able to be bullied for it via mini-moding? we all make mistakes.
I kinda understand what you are saying Turtwig, and sympathize with your concerns but I don’t think you have fully understood the bigger picture here, or what you are saying.
Edit: That actually reminded me, context is also something that should be more specific in rules, I think, considering we have seen people get punished for stupid silly things like the use of “sexy” to simply mean stylish, (overturned), or referencing the sporting goods store in obvious context referring to the sporting goods store, also the same word different context and conversation referring to the first Robin’s real name, these ruling weren’t overturned to my knowledge.