Define "the left's tactics". Your commentary overall is salient, but I figure there's a difference between tactics that the left employs and tactics that the left employs as they're its natural outgrowths.
Anything that invopves shaming in their spheres, or using institutions they control yeah. Calling out hypocritcal acts; or debating them has zero practical value against them because they really don't care. You can use examples of their actions to sway people who are neutral though.
I certainly think it's a good read-- it's rather insightful, particularly if you don't have a fully developed sense of enacting social change through community action beyond "it's worked in the past with the civil rights activists and hmmmrmmmfmmm".
Rules for Radicals is kind of a cult of personality surrounding Saul Alinsky, and his claims are very skeptical, but as far as technique is concerned, it's probably relevant to the modern political landscape (it's been used by both those on the left as well as adapted by some activist groups on the right who believe it's an effective methodology).
It's useful to understand. Can be a bit risky. They are somewhat satanic. I don't particularly say that from a christian viewpoint. I mean that they contain the root of their own destruction. They are methods of tearing stuff down. They're completely without conscience and when you turn them into habits, you'll become someone who tears down not only others, but also the self.
Maybe if there was punishment for frivolous reports, "wasting the police's time" kind of thing. Also, greater transparency as to mod decisions, some kind of publicly available registry that people could also vote on. Right now moderators are unstoppable without administrators getting off their asses and doing something about them, which doesn't happen. Democracy doesn't actually exist on any platform for actually important decisions, kind of like real life.
Oh hell yes. Imagine a forum where if you get caught making a false report that the mods reverse, you lose the ability to make posts for a week. And if you get caught making a false report three times, or organizing a mass flagging campaign, you permanently lose your ability to report, like, or repost anything. Your account wouldn't be deleted and you could still post, but you'd be unable to not only suppress other people's ideas, but to boost the ideas of people you agree with. A system that's stacked against flaggots instead of the reverse.
It's years ago, but I remember Sargon saying how good a book it was and how useful.
You can use that, its what we here call "out-left the left"
