As I've gotten the opportunity to run some game events or moderate discussion, I have some thoughts about this. Making a space positive and inclusive is not a

As I've gotten the opportunity to run some game events or moderate discussion, I have some thoughts about this. Making a space positive and inclusive is not a magical process, but it means going a lot farther than telling victims to "ignore the noise." It requires the stakeholders to be proactive. They must consider how to moderate the space in such a way that minority voices are protected. If this doesn't happen, by default, the loudest majority will command the framework and drain points of discussion into fallacious, self-serving thinking like the low-level insults that permeate most online games. It can happen in many ways, shapes and forms(whether the hotbutton is gender, sexuality, politics, race...), but this quality is true of every space I've observed.