It can apply to anyone at any time once they decide for any reason to expel you.
The ambiguity is a feature, not a bug. They decide they don’t like your opinion about X? Cool, glad you were always a guest - it’s an arbitrary enforcement lever.
Same thing for “safety”. People claimed (in the Nix community) that all kinds of things made them feel “unsafe” - including the opinions of others.
I wouldn’t get involved in a community like that and think it serves a useful purpose to point it out, in case someone else would be similarly hesitant to join such a community.
The nice thing, at least, is that this particular kind of group always lose out in the end. They're divisive by nature and it always eventually turns in on itself. It's a matter of time.
Until then, things are not looking great. When one mod deletes threads because they've had a bad day and cant deal with drama, when other mods start teaming up against the only moderate voice for reaching out to ThE EnEmY, when a huge community member get permabanned for merely voicing disagreement with their own temporary ban (which in turn was only because they - wait for it - "encouraged debate"), it is clear that it won't be long before the community turns on them.
Its just a shame that the big forks are ones run by like-minded activists.
The ambiguity is a feature, not a bug. They decide they don’t like your opinion about X? Cool, glad you were always a guest - it’s an arbitrary enforcement lever.
Same thing for “safety”. People claimed (in the Nix community) that all kinds of things made them feel “unsafe” - including the opinions of others.
I wouldn’t get involved in a community like that and think it serves a useful purpose to point it out, in case someone else would be similarly hesitant to join such a community.