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I think a clever mod will realize that they are not the Supreme Court. They are certainly not the best judge out there. Just clicking accounts and comments out of existence wont solve misinformation - it will just make the mod a tyrant. I know for a fact if i were moderating, there would be few safe users.

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> I think a clever mod will realize that they are not the Supreme Court. They are certainly not the best judge out there. Just clicking accounts and comments out of existence wont solve misinformation - it will just make the mod a tyrant.

We're not talking about prison and the law of the land; we're making decisions about the disposition of some comments on an Internet forum. Far more consequential decisions are made without any due process - for example, managers decide on whether people will keep their jobs; they are 'tyrants'.

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