"’Violence never solved anything’ is a statement uttered by cowards and predators."
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2026
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"Violence may not always be the answer, but it's always an answer." - Me, but I probably stole it from someone.
I remember in school always wondering why people didn't take up arms against things like genocide. Then I lived it.
...then later I discovered that school didn't teach me anything about the violence that happened to actually make the world I enjoy. They want you to forget that violence is an option
It's a statement uttered by people who know full well that they are the problem that violence aims to solve.
Not really the dunk you want it to be
check the mod logs here + reddit currently has upwards of 100 million monthly active users, lemmy has like 3000
I've found that most people who complain about moderation don't have much personal experience moderating a public forum. It's relatively easy when there's low activity but gets way harder the more participants there are.
The average person on the internet sucks. For every cool person there's 10 who have no goal but wasting time by way of trolling. It's such a thankless slog of a job that everyone expects you to perform flawlessly using the same exact standards that they believe are universal and impartial but in reality never are. It's honestly pretty incredible that anyone does it well for more than a month without just banning everyone and closing up shop.
it makes me think of how people treat referee's, I've watched a few sports now and the only thing that unites them all is how angry people are with the ref's