Quote Originally Posted by Andres View Post
I don't understand this and none of the explanations given so far have been satisfying. A lot of blahblahblah, smoke and mirrors, all of it unnecessary, because it is obvious that posting "Fragony, our resident Muslim fag" is simply not allowed here at the .Org; it hasn't been for at least 5 years.
I believe you are fully aware of the reasons this hasn't been addressed. The moderator who was supposed to be in charge of this sub-forum was mistakenly not given edit rights, so she was not able to do what needed doing. Louis, rightly or wrongly, believes that he is being trolled, and is standing firm that he ain't gonna edit nuthin' under these circumstances.

Now that the editing rights have been fixed, Secura will be able to do whatever she believes needs doing. As Sasaki Kojiro indicated, Secura has done an admirable job of articulating the correct role of the mods.
  • We are not word filters.
  • We will consider context.
  • We will consider the level and type of provocation.
  • We will consider a poster's history.
  • We will make mistakes, and fix them as we can.

The Org is built around human self-governance, not automated word filters. The danger of human justice is that it winds up being uneven and imperfect, as this incident shows. The danger of machine justice or (worse) perfect justice is that it is inhumane and incapable of considering things like context, intent, motive or circumstance.