>>45649Saying retard never happens in isolation. There are contexts where saying retard is correct and contexts where saying retard is lazy. You should ban the retards who do the latter, and promote the non-retards who do the former. Any blanket "you should be able to say retard!!!" policy is retarded, failing, as it does, to exclude lazy retards.
You retard.
>>45681This site has declined from peak and comparing it to other 4chan offshoot shitholes is cope. Western imageboards have far more potential than they're allowed to realise because they always inevitably yoke themselves culturally to that sinking ship.
>>45693Mods can engage in shame and ostracism. There should be more bans of shorter duration. A week's ban is really just an invitation to reset your router, while a half-hour ban might actually prompt some reflection simply because it's too much effort to get up. Moderation policy should be to apply friction to undesirable posts while making desirable posting frictionless. Everything else is noise.
Even outside the US you are incredibly unlikely to be sued for calling someone a retard and by sheer statistics alone, probably funny that the retard who got themselves on the wrong end of that hook was retarded enough to do so. The problem with leftypol is not a lack of "dissent", but that it has become an ideological monoculture. It is dying not because it bans too many retards, but because it does not invite in enough over-educated retards. (e.g. we should have socdems and anarchists and all sorts of stupid dead left-leaning ideologues here to argue their case, but instead what we have is a retarded blob of vulgar marxism-multipolar-LARPism, not so much a fault of current moderators - except insofar as they fail to outreach - as of all the interesting posters leaving and not being replaced..)
Quoting Marx should be a bannable offense when it's tedious. There should be constant selective pressure for the new and against the old. (though in the specific case, i would suggest a rotating series of mocking wordfilters. he who is not at war with his past self has already died.)