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Seconded.
The tipping point is always context.
Not sure what kind of answer you are looking for but in this world there is rarely a smoking gun and the question you need to ask is "what's was the context of this?"
With out providing some kind of context and framing it as one person is arguing with many you leave out the context to understand what the conflict actually is.
Every time someone makes a post about the super evil mean mods are out of control and suppressing them.
Then you look at their modlog and see all the vile hate that keeps getting removed.
Given the instance you are using, I think their complaints are probably justified
Yeah, you'd be surprised at that...
Laws aren't morals
The moment I hear of some form of abuse or manipulation coming into the picture. If you're being abused, manipulated or both at any degree and for however long - get the fuck out.
Morality isn't objective. This is because you can't say "people shouldn't hurt each other" without implying "hurting people is bad". And you can't say "hurting people is bad" without implying that "suffering should be avoided". And it's turtles like that all the way down.
The bedrock of moral thinking is not rational. Somewhere, in everyone's thinking there are unexamined values. Cultivate your sense of confusion because most of life works this way.
Your example is spot on.
Sometimes you start shit with people to draw attention to them.