OccultIconoclast

Comforting people with your voice is a form of magic and atheists don't believe in magic, so they haven't developed any incantations.

Vague rules hide and legitimise abuse of power.

There's no need to "control corruption" or prevent "enforcers not understanding the rules" when the person making the rules is also the person enforcing them.

That's exactly when you most need to control corruption. You're talking about the legislative and executive branches of governance. Most states separate those TO control corruption. I don't think it's practical to control corruption that way on an internet forum, but that's why the other controls need to be stronger to pick up the slack.

People like PugJesus think they're controlling corruption. PugJesus is a transphobe, the specific decisions he thinks are abuse aren't. But people like him don't have the ability to read Ada's mind, so she's got to explain it to every single one of them or they'll all start rumours about what the secret rules of Blahaj are. And Blahaj certainly does have secret rules. They're the rules of how Ada thinks. And everyone is interested in knowing them, since she won't explain them.

No, that's ridiculous. The admins can just change the rules to close the loophole.

That's how the government does laws. They don't just wave their hands and say "don't misbehave". Problems like police brutality are more likely to happen when enforcers don't clearly understand the rules, and aren't held to them.

But the government still makes an effort to control corruption by having clearly defined rules, and that's good. That leads to less abuse of power.

Blahaj is supposed to be a safer space for trans people than the streets of most countries. It should be more careful about the rules, not less.

I've seen lots of people be dicks on Blahaj. Because my understanding of being a dick is different to Ada's. Everyone's is. We all have different life experiences, values, triggers.

Transphobes are going to keep on criticising Blahaj as long as they think transphobia isn't dickish. Which is as long as they're transphobes. The rules complaints are going to just keep on happening forever unless Blahaj gets rules.

The only other communities where I've seen as much drama over the rules are Beehaw, which is designed the same way, and .world, which wouldn't state an admin position on advocating violence for a long time. Ambiguity creates conflict.

Vague rules are power. Power corrupts. No anarchist should be creating vague rules. If they do, all other anarchists have the right to kick their shins

That's what I call sh.reddit. it's a regional dialect

Imagine how pants-shittingly-scared the oligarchs would be if one got capped and they couldn't find the killer?

I don't have to. That's how scared they are now. Luigi is a cope. He didn't do that, he's just there to make the oligarchs feel better like a night light

They'll call the actual shooter a copycat.

If Discord were on GitHub with a GNU licence, Revolt wouldn't need to spend all this time re-inventing the wheel.

If Revolt enshittifies, the next replacement won't need to spend time re-inventing the wheel.

Even in the worst case scenario, this is a step in the right direction. And I'm not convinced of your worst case scenario.

Nobody who creates communities in lemmy.world is a hero