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The moving on is part of the threat.

Dismissing one atrocity faster only means you get to the next one sooner.

You have no agency over the inflow, and there's little evidence that what you're doing has an effect -- the stream never stops. Metrics for performance and benefit of the effort as a whole are hard to construct and communicate.

As a moderator, it's just shitty shit often being done by shitty people, posted by other shitty people, again and again and again and again and again and again and again.

There's no diseased root to hack off. And if you do happen to find one, another grows in its place -- a literal Medusa's head.




I hadn't thought of it that way. I see your point now.


Thank you, appreciated.




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