In the past you could break rules on the internet and people would treat it as a joke or cool implementation of a technique at best and annoyance at worst. Now

In the past you could break rules on the internet and people would treat it as a joke or cool implementation of a technique at best and annoyance at worst. Now if you break those rules the system breaks you. It's not meekness so much as the economics have changed and breaking rules isn't worth it for as many people anymore