Yes metafilter is a mess. The number of reasonable people who have abandoned that community is very high. Bad actors everywhere are really all the same. They b

Yes metafilter is a mess. The number of reasonable people who have abandoned that community is very high. Bad actors everywhere are really all the same. They build up good will with insightful content and active participation, then they use that to strong arm the community to further their personal biases. As the parent comment said, the mods at metafilter are too close to the community. Being involved can be a good thing but I think the mods have taken for granted how it allows them to be exploited and bullied by a very vocal minority.