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    @Unionhawk The entire point of rules more specific than "be nice" is to try to prevent moderators from simply acting based on their own opinions, which differ from moderator to moderator. If moderators were free not to enforce any specific rule with which they personally disagree, then flag handling would be highly dependent on which moderator happened to see the flag first. (There's always going to be an unavoidable aspect of that, but letting moderators ignore rules they don't like would make it far worse.) Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 15:35
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    @KyleStrand Do you think it is appropriate for a mod to tell a user they weren't being rude but rules are rules, or do you think instead that it would be more appropriate to just kind of keep that to themselves Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 18:36
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    @Unionhawk I think both can be appropriate depending on the situation. Mods are people not computers and they can have thoughts and opinions and can adapt to various circumstances and balance different values with nuance. There's a reason we have human beings handle many of these things. Computers don't do nuance so well. Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 18:39
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    Seeing as Monica was fired for basically trying to work out how to reconcile her position on singular they with the CoC changes in a private moderator chat, I am assuming that if I express my opinion about neopronouns too forcefully in public that would be cause for my removal. There are people that believe that simply expressing that you are going to avoid using pronouns because you don't agree with using certain pronouns is a serious violation of the CoC that should be punished. I would not assume anyone is free to express disagreement with the pronoun policy without consequences. Commented Nov 1, 2019 at 12:04
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    @ColleenV Exactly. There is no reason to "suspect yes" as an answer to this question. Commented Nov 1, 2019 at 14:43