On the whole it's a light touch (I am not making a comment on the decision above) and they are there to protect against really offensive, attacking individual GN' type posts should we feel the need.
Most important of all is moderating against trolls, we had a nasty round ot a persistent one recently and if allowed to just get away with it would wreck our discussions. Social media can be a truly nasty place at its extremes.
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