I know we all get tired of meta posts, but this has been a complaint for ages.
Can we please simplify the rules and then enforce them equally and consistently? As is, we've had pretty sporadic enforcement, where bad stuff - porn, clearly bad faith trolling, and pedophilia advocation, to name a few recent standouts - have stayed up for around a week. Meanwhile, some much less offensive stuff, from established and active members, sometimes gets taken down immediately, which just stifles discussion. (And, no, I was not moderated, this isn't me bitching about something done to me.)
This isn't Reddit; we don't need these rules. We can simplify this all down to 'no porn, no advocating illegal activity, and if you're a handshake you don't have human rights.'
Rule 16 is Peddit tier "no bigotry" thinly disguised as something a teensy bit more reasonable. As for rule 2, there's a huge difference between "X deserves Y" and "I'm going to do Y to X", and rule 2 pretends that it's all the same. The guy running this place is an enemy, and that's why he doesn't enforce rule 14. Strictly enforcing rule 14 would be a net positive for the board's quality and it would go against DOM's mission to poison the place from the inside out.