The question relates to how can you create a system that helps align peoples incentives with the goal of the forum. Imagine if you could allow users to delete

The question relates to how can you create a system that helps align peoples incentives with the goal of the forum. Imagine if you could allow users to delete comments they don’t agree with. That would create the antithesis of a curious discussion, so that feature isn’t available. So, yes, a good system can constrain what users are allowed to do with intelligent guardrails.