Moderation Philosophy

Moderation in TGK Community exists to protect the standard of the room, not to impose ideological obedience. It is there to stop degradation, preserve clarity, and keep good-faith disagreement possible.

What Moderation Does

• Prevents harassment, humiliation, and targeted hostility.
• Ensures replies include an appropriate Steel Man summary.
• Removes incoherent, malicious, or unserious contributions.
• Redirects posts or leads that belong in a different room or require a different standard.
• Protects users from impersonation or targeted hostility.
• Upholds the Charter and Participation Guide in spirit and practice.

What Moderation Does Not Do

• Suppress reasonable disagreement.
• Enforce political or ideological alignment.
• Intervene in disputes outside TGK spaces.
• Censor criticism expressed in good faith.
• Promise that every weak contribution will be rescued rather than removed.

Moderation Ethos

Moderators are custodians, not platform landlords. Their job is to keep the space usable for serious people: sharp enough for disagreement, clean enough for honest inquiry, and disciplined enough that the loudest member does not set the tone for everyone else.