Tuxedo Catfish posted:

I feel like SA moderation used to be better at permanently dissuading terrible / bad faith posters from doing their thing, through some combination of actually being willing to escalate to harsher punishments on the one hand, and different ideas about the goal of moderation (enforce the rules and nothing else vs. set a certain tone and culture for the subforum) on the other.

TG honestly seems to have suffered less than other subforums have since the sea change around ~2013 though, so at the very least I don't think beer is doing a particularly bad job.

I haven't been following the fash thread and have no strong opinions on that specific issue, but "ban literal self-admitted fascists even if they haven't broken a rule recently" sounds like a good idea.