didn't scott erase his entire community and body of work out of fear of being subjected to a witch hunt? the witch doth protest too much. >I think that learnin

didn't scott erase his entire community and body of work out of fear of being subjected to a witch hunt? the witch doth protest too much. >I think that learning those skills is worthwhile because in strongly free speech areas, one can often find high-value content that is difficult or impossible to find in thought-policed places. i have had far more positive experiences & formed some of the most valuable connections in my life on 'toxic' freespeech sites than i ever have on twitter. it's actually shocking sometimes how much more caustic and genuinely awful twitterposters are than anons. you see the same thing in online games. free for alls tend to breed a certain amount of community enforced values while games with heavy oversight & no shit talk end up being much more miserable experiences.