Eternal September will happen sooner or later. The current pandemic is probably speeding the process up given how many generic news article about the coronaviru

Eternal September will happen sooner or later. The current pandemic is probably speeding the process up given how many generic news article about the coronavirus are making it up the frontpage at the moment. I feel like the admins and moderators do a decent job generally but they're not proactive enough IMO. I remember how we had a temporary moratorium on political stories around the time Trump was elected for instance (or was it just before? I don't remember exactly). The karma threshold for enabling downvotes should probably be increased given the "karma inflation" over the past few years. Users caught disagree-downvoting should lose their downvote privileges, at least temporarily. Of course the natural process of any such forum is to eventually turn into Reddit but we don't have to sit idly by and watch it happen.