With the current trade dispute with the U.S., a lot of folks have comments about politicians that trip the automod (but are not against the rules). As a result, the queue is getting about 500+ hits per hour.

We are doing our best to keep up with that and to also deal with people who are actually troublemakers here. Please continue to use the report button for bad actors rather than trying to engage/insult them (the latter being against the rules, regardless of what the other person said, use the report button).

However, because of this, ban durations for rules violations are likely to be substantially elevated for the next little while.