I really like your thinking here, especially the "more like real world" part. As you outlined in the previous comment, the source of the problem is the increase

I really like your thinking here, especially the "more like real world" part. As you outlined in the previous comment, the source of the problem is the increased communication rates - in the offline world, you normally have like 60 microassholes per second, while online you can easily get up to 30K microassholes/s. This change of communications with assholes rate brings asymmetry that is a cause of the problem: you still have the same response capacity and emotional response decay time as in the offline world, but the incoming rate of assholes is so huge, so you can't cope with it anymore. So perhaps any solution should be seen from this perspective: decreasing the upper boundary rate to some reasonably acceptable value. But it also may lead to the opposite conclusion – we now in an online world, with different speeds and rates of everything. Maybe solutions "like in the real world" simply won't work anymore here. Perhaps we can use some new tools to solve these sorts of problems, that we never had in the offline world? For example, there was a brilliant idea to set a price tag for your attention in the online world. Imagine an email system where the sender should pay some price for you to receive it and read. This price can be dynamic and vary according to various parameters – from sender's identity to my current mood. If someone sends me a public speaking request or is trying to hire me, they'll pay like 5$ per mail, but for my friends or coworkers asking for help it could be 0.03$. And if my inbox is empty (ha-ha) and I'm in the mood to explore who's writing me, I can temporarily lower the price for all. That's of course, just a rough sketch of the idea, but it might work in the future if cryptocurrencies become ubiquitous for example.