There is a regular issue where once a particular forum tips beyond a certain point in either direction, you steadily start to lose people from the 'other side'

There is a regular issue where once a particular forum tips beyond a certain point in either direction, you steadily start to lose people from the 'other side' who are well worth keeping but increasingly feel unwelcome. The SSC comments section suffered this in terms of tipping to the right, and Scott ended up stepping up enforcement of borderline-against-the-rules right wing posts and stepping down enforcement of borderline-against-the-rules left wing posts to try and avoid the discussion becoming completely one sided. It seems we aren't going to found out how well that would've worked in the long run, sadly.