As a counter weight, communities are built on the assuming of good faith. If we assume a psuedo-anonymous stranger is a bad actor then it is impossible to have

As a counter weight, communities are built on the assuming of good faith. If we assume a psuedo-anonymous stranger is a bad actor then it is impossible to have functional open community online. Open communities must balance the risk of bad actors with the health of the community, and most does so through a few selected moderators which job it is to screen for bad actors. This only work as long as the remaining members continue to assume good faith in each other, including the moderators. I would say that wearing your allegiance on your sleeve kills open communities. Dissenting views are eliminated and thus we get echo chambers. Anything slightly dissenting is seen as bad actor, and we get a oppressive environment where the perceived risk of weaponized accounts becomes a tool for control.