Concerns on the OS chat and fourms.

[ParaSpider]

There's a lot of the younger crowd here that can be pretty impressionable and/or sensitive when it comes to sensitive topics in the chat. The talk I saw earlier today about how to commit suicide without any moderator intervention was not something that I would have deemed appropriate when I was a moderator. I think it's fair to have a standard when it comes to muting for very blatant attempts at being edgy in terms of death threats and encouraging suicide. Not to say that the team is doing a bad job cleaning the chat (moderators like fox have been very clear in terms of what the punishment scale is and how punishments are dealt) but things are also easily missed.

The best thing I recommend is probably helping report users that are acting in a questionable manner and doing your own intervention. Half of the time, I would miss sequences that were inappropriate or crashed browsers until someone reported them because hundreds are made every couple minutes. Censorship is also becoming a very political thing on the internet but I think that it would be fair to say that what you mentioned in the original post (and what I saw today) are not a good representation of the site, and are actionable.

As for death threats being a rule, I recall punishments years ago being dealt because of legitimate doxxing and threats being made. Of course they were handled, and at times we considered further intervention if we thought there was ever a real risk of danger. I am not sure if that's changed, but I'm sure that if there's a legitimate threat, those just need to be reported.