Stumbled across this screenshot. Now, instead of judging people for yourself, the computer can do it for you!!! This will in no way be used negatively by Reddit nor people who are arguing with each other. Original post is here, if anyone still has Reddit maybe go spread the good word of Lemmy and Piefed to these users :P
Sounds like the sewer of the internet. If there's so much trouble then people need to make private clubs where users have to apply to join and only a handful get in per week. I moderate a couple of groups on Gab and I've never banned anyone except people who used automated software to flood the groups. Arguments are actually funny and we don't stop them. Just because someone's "hot take" offends someone it doesn't mean we ban. Even if half the users were offended we wouldn't ban. We are adults on Gab unlike reddit. I don't log into Gab looking to moderate and patrol for trouble because it'd make the website less fun for everyone. We aren't a bunch of sissies but neither are we an image board for pornographers and freaks. I think the problem is reddit and the idiots it attracts. Once people get out of their twenties they will discover other websites and stop using reddit. The problem is that there are always new children being born, then they're allowed to post online and suddenly the problems you describe appear.
Yeah, that's the attitude I took. If I don't care, it can't be that bad.
Honestly, the vast majority of reports come from one's ego going "tink" because someone tossed a pebble at it. Rarely did a report actually have serious merit to it.
I've always been of the opinion that if you need a mod to sort something out for you, it's not the nook and cranny of the internet for you and just move onto one of the infinite more. The only things that should be reported and actioned on are those that threaten the nook and/or cranny itself—malicious shit against it's integrity, basically.
Regardless, I never want to mod an online social space ever again. Oh! I did two, but the other one was just a forum and it too had it's 1 in 200 bad eggs.