66308-san brings up a good point too - we have one camp of users always trying to pull site staff into being more lenient, and another camp of users always trying to pull site staff into being more strict. We can't please both camps at once. At best, all we can do is find a "happy" medium that "pleases" both equally (AKA not at all)

Regarding staff changes and rule implementation changes made in the "past half a year" or "around November", from what I recall:
- In September 2023, we figured out range bans were possible, and I also took a vacation and big moderation break for much of that month
- In December, kaguya b& Tor due to frequent abuse from ban evaders
- Around New Year's (I think?), one of teh April 2023 janitors was promoted to mod (meaning they can now hand out bans and change thread statuses rather than just delete posts and mute users)
- I've been less active in general over this period cuz I've been mostly working on Heyuri★CGI-related projects, and otherwise opting to take it easy

Besides that, there's been no changes to Rule 8 since the time "needlessly angry/argumentative posts" was added in April 2023, nor any changes to how it's enforced (at least on my part)

Regarding making Rule 8 clearer: it's impossible for us to list every single thing that it may or may not cover + all contextual nuances. Such a list would also 1. be deserving of ridicule, and 2. be a convenient reference for those who wish to crap up Heyuri with it. The things that are currently listed give you a rough outline of what kind of thing isn't welcome, and it's mostly "phrases/images that are popular to troll with on 4chan and other troll-centric websites in modern times" plus (and this is where it's more difficult to determine) "various aspects of modern mainstream Western 'meme' culture"

In general, we've always stated that Rule 8 does NOT mean anything that's new/popular, and I've always advised Heyuri staff-san to leave things alone for kaguya or someone to deal with if they're not absolutely sure something breaks Rule 8 and to not immediately delete/ban something just because a report was made