[jwatte]

Huh? It sounds to me like this is arguing one should be OK with /r/conservative doing it (and joining up, even) but then not OK that other subs do it, too. That doesn't really pass the sniff test, so maybe I'm missing something.

[bawolff]

I'm more trying to say, if you find it wrong that r/conservative does it, then you shouldn't do it yourself. Other people's bad behaviour should not be a justification for you own.

When it comes to morality, we can't control how other people act, we can only control what we ourselves do.

Especially when the "retaliation" is aimed at members and not the people implementing the mod policy.