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Whenever I notice a public complaint that a rule isn't being enforced, the conversation goes something like
Complainant: "Why didn't you mod this?"
Mod: "Why didn't you report this?"
Complainant: something in between "Oops!" and "It's not my job to educate you!", depending on whether they're about to improve or just flame out.
Obviously from a normative sense I'm on the side of the mods here, because asking volunteer users to report violations as they see them is less burdensome and more scalable than asking volunteer mods to proactively police every comment posted, but from a positive sense maybe being more isolated now is making the system work less well? Judging by vote scores, even here many people have trouble understanding that the standard is not supposed to be "click the down arrow if you disagree", and I suspect "don't report rule violations if you don't disagree" is a equally popular misunderstanding. Reddit always provided an influx of people of all political persuasions who stumbled onto the subreddit, which was probably a good source of not-all-false-positive reports that's dried up here.
I'm a fairly active reporter, only a small percentage of things I report get acted on, and the exchanges when I complained in the open that no action was taken were maybe about 50/50 between very late responses insinuating that it was unreasonable to expect action to be taken quickly, and dismissals with either no particularly coherent reason given or some form of messenger-shooting ("we get lots of people wanting their outgroup to be moderated more").
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