Hi there.
A short introduction: This is an alt account. I’m a moderator here who has been unhappy with the state of news/political discussions here for a long time. The admins have kindly given me the opportunity to see if we can make some improvement the community here.
We will be doing some major revision of the rules left by the previous moderators and will use discussions in this thread as feedback on the direction we should take our community.
This will be an open discussion on the state of our community, the rules and our moderation practices. Feel free to give your inputs.
I would expect that that the mod that is not on rotation should not be doing mod work like banning users etc. if there are issues with mods switching to anonymous accounts and not being banned, when the mod moved off rotation, the post can still be reported and a more objective mod will review the post/user.
if every time the anonymous user is banned and the problem mod rotates in and unbans a user, we would be able to identify the problem mod after a few unbanning