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>It's easy to forget how in other forums you must become hardened against people often telling you to get hurt or otherwise perish When slurs, personal attacks
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>It's easy to forget how in other forums you must become hardened against people often telling you to get hurt or otherwise perish
When slurs, personal attacks and incivility are fair game you can't attack inconvenient opinions by complaining that they are not presented in a high enough brow manner.
This tilts the balance of power in favor of whatever the local majority opinion is (as if voting wasn't a strong enough mechanism for doing that) because every subjective rule you can possibly use to exclude commentary will always get wielded harder against the minority opinion.