That's an... interesting interpretation. What I'm saying is that working as a mod is a generally thankless job and that I'm going to get hate for it regardless of what I do. If I didn't learn to shrug it off, then I would have left the role a long time ago and never looked back. If your goal as a moderator is to make sure everyone is satisfied with what you're doing, then you're doing it wrong.
Well unless you became a moderator yesterday, it appears you haven’t done one bit of moderating your entire time on this site. So you can’t really call it a job, thankless or otherwise.
I know I could be doing better. That's part of why I'm doing this: to ensure that we have a more consistent form of enforcement. Your response to that is to argue that we should also be enforcing in other places, which doesn't really change the point of my initial post. I think there's room to discuss how moderation could better enforce other existing aspects of the CoC or add to the CoC in ways that are beneficial for the site, but that doesn't really change whether we should allow personal attacks or harassment. We can both recognize that those are a problem and aim to do a better job in other areas while we're at it.
Well this is very well said. But this site is doomed to become a refuge for wack jobs and their misinformation and hate speech if all your going to do is ban people for personal attacks and let misinformation and hate speech slide.
Without personal attacks, the misinformation and hate speech will be unchecked by the regular people on this site.