>The only people who want to remove polarity from online conversation are hardcore censorship maximalists. Even American civic debate culture is heavily center

>The only people who want to remove polarity from online conversation are hardcore censorship maximalists. Even American civic debate culture is heavily centered around limitations on how to present an argument. Polarity in itself isn't what matters in productive discourse, it's truthfulness, factfulness, lack of bad faith argument style, and so on. Anyone who is interested in debate producing truth rather than being a sort of entropy entertainment machine must value civility. People can be completely polarized and argue complete nonsense, there is no value in it whatsoever. The literal site we are having this conversation on right now is very strongly moderated when it comes to civility and avoiding needless polarization, but HN is not censorship maximalist. It's ironic to try to argue this especially here.