In my experience, low tolerance for negativity is a form of burn out dealing with people. Even the thimble of energy required to ignore a comment is yet anothe

In my experience, low tolerance for negativity is a form of burn out dealing with people. Even the thimble of energy required to ignore a comment is yet another thimble of energy taken from the pool when all you're doing is helping somebody. The hard line approach might seem silly in isolation, but I don't think it's unreasonable. The slow creep of community negativity has burned me out on one of my own projects, a forum I run. One perk of zero tolerance is that it spares you energy for more important decisions. People are quick to point out that it comes at the expense of alienating some folks, but nobody ever seems to care about discouraging the people actually doing the work.