Had some concerns regarding the moderation and application of code of conduct in the community, especially in discussions around news articles and tools. In the short time I have been here, I have seen some of the moderation having consistent bias in favor of members of the team/long time members, …

Regarding this feedback, we are going to be stricter about low effort, low quality posting and have published a statement on what types of posts are no longer permitted. Hopefully this improves the situation! [image] Regarding bad-faith arguments in the privacy community Announceme…

Going to follow up with what Cyber-Typhoon said. I think this thread has a few different topics I’ll provide my unsolicited input on :smiley: On rules, or just being nice I’m a bit of a hot-head on forums myself, and I suddenly catch myself being combative. Regardless who started what, I think its…

Apologies for disturbing the hive and not responding back :no_mouth:, had a long day or two. Interesting to see that others do feel the same. [image] jonah: It’s hard to comment on any of these concerns without specific examples. Multiple instances, but I don’t want to point out specific ind…

On several occasions on this forum, I’ve given my opinion in a constructive and respectful manner, without insults or threats, and as I disagreed with the opinion of some, my posts were reported and deleted by the modos. I argued that DDG should be removed from the site for deliberately censoring p…

[image] anon49578468: They look like they were made to fit the tools available, instead of using them to search for tools. Conveniently, these “tools”, more often than not, are the ones moderators some how “like” (unconscious bias, as someone put it) more than the others. Anyone pointing that…

This thread certainly has me rethinking my usage of RethinkDNS :grimacing: [image] Pragmatic: On several occasions on this forum, I’ve given my opinion in a constructive and respectful manner, without insults or threats, and as I disagreed with the opinion of some, my posts were reported and de…

[image] mika: This thread certainly has me rethinking my usage of RethinkDNS :grimacing: At this point, I should know better than to involve myself in these types of discussions, but oh well. I have noticed that there is a minority of PG Forum and Techlore Forum members that just love to try…

[image] ignoramous: You’d note every single mod active on this thread “liked” this post that has multiple ad hominem remarks, violating the very code of conduct they hold everyone else to. If you would reread the post in question, I did not in fact make any ad hominem attacks on you. I stated…

[image] Pragmatic: I argued that DDG should be removed from the site for deliberately censoring pro-Russian content, but not pro-EU or pro-US content, and that this was bad for neutrality. Does this only apply to DDG? How about Brave Search and Startpage?

I don’t know if Brave Search practices censorship and regarding Startpage, it relies on Google and Bing for their results, not like DDG who voluntarily made this decision.

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No, it was in the discussion “Censorship in DDG” where two of my posts were reported by some and censored by the modos, because I had argued that it was not normal for DDG to censor pro-Russian content, but not Western, that it lacked neutrality.

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