Hello everyone! RockSlayer here with another mod update. Recently we had a metapost (found here!) seeking to amend the rules in light of a public disagreement between myself and another mod. Based on feedback from that metapost, we will be implementing a rule banning support for authoritarians. This is one more chance to provide feedback before we codify this rule as written:
Unconditional support of authoritarians will not be tolerated.
Just to be clear ideologically, we are not becoming an anarchist community or using an overly broad definition of authoritarianism. As an anarcho-syndicalist myself, balancing this rule to prevent the exclusion of statist ideologies is of the utmost importance to me; that is why the rule has the requirement of “unconditional support”. If you feel like there is a better way to phrase this new rule, please give us your suggestions!
Is the determination of authoritarian based on ruling out individuals deemed authoritarian or based on ideological and policy criterion for what is and isn’t authoritarian?
Especially in a mixed state/non-state ideological environment, settling on criteria that everyone can at least be equally non-plussed about is probably necessary for this community to not become the latest rendition of the leftist on the bridge sketch.