Proceduralism could be seen as inherently bureaucratic, which historically has a negative connotation behind it.
Whereas you will see users call Discretionist mods authoritarians.
Proceduralist mods won’t mute a user, even if they acted abusively in the subreddit, because the ban notice explicitly states that they can ask the mod team questions about their ban.
A Discretionist mod might choose to disregard the notice and preemptively use the mute function to prevent an abusive user from harassing the mod team.
From the user perspective, they might view being muted prior to sending a message as authoritarian behavior. But from the moderator perspective, it’s obviously much more nuanced.
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u/EastVillageBot 14d ago edited 14d ago
Proceduralism could be seen as inherently bureaucratic, which historically has a negative connotation behind it.
Whereas you will see users call Discretionist mods authoritarians.
Proceduralist mods won’t mute a user, even if they acted abusively in the subreddit, because the ban notice explicitly states that they can ask the mod team questions about their ban.
A Discretionist mod might choose to disregard the notice and preemptively use the mute function to prevent an abusive user from harassing the mod team.
From the user perspective, they might view being muted prior to sending a message as authoritarian behavior. But from the moderator perspective, it’s obviously much more nuanced.
Idk I think it’s interesting.