Poor moderation.
Calling Tweeters “Twits” was unnecessarily snarky but there has never been any hard rule about being snarky towards third parties (as opposed to thread participants). Further, if ITD had admonished that and stopped there, we would not be having this teapot encapsulated storm.
But instead ITD muddled the issue by calling it threadshitting. There is not one single part of **Turble’s **post that offends the threadshitting rule as stated by CKDH. Let’s parse:
Nope, Turble shat on Twitter as not being worthwhile. The OP was (in significant part) whether twitter was worthwhile. **ITD **(and frankly other mods in this thread who should know better) seem to have got confused between the subject of the discussion (whether Twitter was worthwhile, to which **Turble’s **post was precisely on point) and the discussion itself.
Nope. **Turble **did not suggest that the OP should not have raised the topic or that it wasn’t worth talking about.
Nope, **Turble **did not belittle the posters in the thread, **Turble **belittled Twitter users, and to the extent there is overlap that’s not the point of the threadshitting rule. It’s not threadshitting to say “yes I think conservatives are ignorant” in a thread about whether conservatives are ignorant, just because there are conservatives participating in the discussion.
Nope. **Turble **was quite clearly answering the OP’s very question, not suggesting that the question itself was stupid or not worth caring about.
As above.
Clear moderating fail. And really my dissection of the issue isn’t even required. **Snowboarder Bo **said “+1” and wasn’t moderated. **jz78817 **said “I don’t, and nobody.” which was if anything even more explicitly dismissive than Turble, and wasn’t moderated.
Which tells you it wasn’t about threadshitting it was about being insulting at an incredibly low level (is there a more minor insult than “twit”?). Confusing moderation that hasn’t been thought through leads to unnecessary disputation.
If the OP was “Olive stuffing: is it worth the effort?” does anyone here believe that **ITD **would have modded someone who said “I choose not to be an olive duffer and don’t care to do any olive duffing”?
Course not. Why not? Well, I think we know the answer to that.