I don't moderate r/science, but I do help moderate a pretty big sub that is unrelated to politics that similarly tries with varying success to be polite and on

I don't moderate r/science, but I do help moderate a pretty big sub that is unrelated to politics that similarly tries with varying success to be polite and on topic There's a lot of bot and other obvious spam that we catch with programmatic moderation The vast majority of comments we manually remove fall into one of four categories: * Stuff that is just random off topic, nothing to do with the sub * Stuff we redirect to another sub (politics, relationships, etc) * Stuff that is scammy, or straight up soliciting * Stuff that is outright insulting ad hominems. The bad end of this category makes you lose faith in humanity, so you kinda have to turn off your soul when moderating. So if I had to guess, a good chunk of those deleted r/science comments aren't just "scientific opion with no basis" or "flat earth!", but also things closer the form " \\\\ you \\\\ing \\\\, your \\\\ing mother too, I hope you all \\\\ing burn in hell you \\\\ \\\\\* \\\\\*".