Responding in kind to offensive trolls is absolutely detrimental to an online community, and should be a bannable offense. Although warnings should be given fir

Responding in kind to offensive trolls is absolutely detrimental to an online community, and should be a bannable offense. Although warnings should be given first to first offenders before full bans. However, even though this post is not a very good example, reddit does have a problem of overly petty and power hungry mods on major forums, some of which do shape large parts of public opinion.