For example, do you need a degree in philosophy to be a moderator of the philosophy community?

If so, how do we test for that?

If not, why do we treat them as authority?

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    They don’t need anything to do anything. It’s better here than reddit in my experience but I’ve still had comments removed because the mod disagreed with them even though they broke no rules. People gonna do people shit always.

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      I got comments about Israeli removed for anti semitism.

      My comments were links to wikipedia about population statistics. Apparently pointing out the Jewish population of NYC is anti-semetic.

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        I’ve only gotten reasons for removal once and it was for disinformation when I said female genital mutilation was worse than circumcision. I havent gotten a reason for the time I was arguing against the use of the phrase “death to America” doubling down to include death to all Americans. I had some comments removed in that thread and decided to delete the rest.

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          I mean, I would remove that comment too. Mostly because I hate gender war bullshit about ‘who has it worse’. It’s never productive in any meaningful way.