It didn't used to be. It used to be pretty good, but a handful of censorious mods insisted that they needed tools to fight exactly the same sorts of things that OP is insisting that moderation is for - illegal content, real harassment - and then immediately started using those tools to purge political enemies.
It didn't used to be. It used to be pretty good, but a handful of censorious mods insisted that they needed tools to fight exactly the same sorts of things that OP is insisting that moderation is for - illegal content, real harassment - and then immediately started using those tools to purge political enemies.