I saw first-hand some of the result of the decision-making by moderators you refer to on the EV tax credits. We can only imagine the discussion it took to work through those since it was done behind the scenes. I’ve also seen decisions rendered when the cases were obviously more clear-cut and the discussion simply had no benefit to anyone and had to go.
From the outside, I have never seen a decision I disagreed with. Some took awhile, but the moderators it looks like have a lot to do.
The EV tax credit thing was surely a tough case because it clearly had a lot of politics going on, in part because it was rolled into a signature bill for one side and the other side, of course put a lot of effort into hammering that bill. Some here chose sides based on that. Then other members here, more or less above the fray, managed to try to discuss things on their merits, and it was pretty complicated stuff that brought in union actions which itself is politically charged. It seems like the forum dealt with it as best it could.
But yes, if moderation, or the no-politics rule goes away so will a lot of discussion of fact that most of us are here for.
The EV thing will maybe come up again a little... not much... and this Twitter thing will go on... and Biden will continue to struggled to mention Tesla when he should and those will be bumps in the road. But with the moderators approaching the rule as they have, we’ll work through it;.
