I haven't seen anyone link it yet, so I will. Scott Alexander talks about why people shut down comment sections, as part of explaining why the CW (read: politic

I haven't seen anyone link it yet, so I will. Scott Alexander talks about why people shut down comment sections, as part of explaining why the CW (read: politics) thread on his subreddit got shut down: > The fact is, it’s very easy to moderate comment sections. It’s very easy to remove spam, bots, racial slurs, low-effort trolls, and abuse. I do it single-handedly on this blog’s 2000+ weekly comments. r/slatestarcodex’s volunteer team of six moderators did it every day on the CW Thread, and you can scroll through week after week of multiple-thousand-post culture war thread and see how thorough a job they did. > But once you remove all those things, you’re left with people honestly and civilly arguing for their opinions. And that’s the scariest thing of all. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread...