Well I responded to the reports mentioned in the OP, and I did so before checking this thread, if that matters to anyone.
mps wrote:Facts as I see them:
3. The moderation dynamic that protects this speech can only be accounted for by social relationships, not any concept of fair play or objective assessment of the merits. Even if it's framed as principled objection to comparing records or whatever, this is just another aspect of the power dynamic at play. If it weren't about "record sniping," there'd be some other problem with Berder and/or Sandman25 asserting themselves in a way that makes their antagonists uncomfortable. I would also point out that it shouldn't actually be necessary to make record comparisons, since any reasonably well-informed poster would know what kind of records Berder and Sandman have and post with appropriate level of regard (which isn't much, but which is more than the contempt I regularly see).
If the attacks bothered you so much why didn't
you bother to report report them? Clicking one button would have been a lot easier than typing all this stuff up complaining about nothing being done about bad posts. So maybe the explanation is just that people didn't report those posts (including the people who were being insulted—or whom you assume were insulted)?
People get into heated arguments on the Internet. In most cases, it doesn't erupt, but sometimes it does. I want to stop that from happening, but I'm always wary of intervening when no one has actually submitted a report. (That doesn't mean I won't intervene without a report, just that I'm much more cautious about it.)
So precisely because I am
not all that into the sort of power-mongering you suggest, I tend to be reactive, rather than proactive. For this particular role, and in this community, I think that's for the best, although I'm always open to suggestions about how I could be doing things differently/better.