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Sorry sorry, got shut down while I was typing :p

If people are going to keep pulling that example up then you really should research what the exact situation is, why it happened, how it happened, where responsibility lies and what the actual response has been. Because the American right wing hot take on it is complete bollocks and trotting it...

Sane was bait, he dangled his toe in a shark tank and it got bitten off. The lesson to learn there is not be surprised when a shark bites you, it is to not stick your appendages in a shark tank and start wiggling them.

Perhaps instead of dooming about asking people to not be dicks is the end of the forum at some unspecified point in the future, there may be wisdom in giving it a week or two and actually observing with your own eyes what actually happens? Then make a choice about deleting yourselves.

Crackdown is overly dramatic, it implies some sort of massive wave of incoming drama. It isn't, it'll be telling a handful of people to dial it back for the good of general discourse and it'll have zero impact on the majority. It's just doing what we should have been doing since day one. We did...

Then you need to mitigate that a little. You're going to have to think a bit about the fact that it is infinitely better if people have a neutral or favourable view of you in the world. It isn't hard to put a limit on yourself, to use some wisdom in how you express yourself. I guarantee you that...

Consider the Bus Stop test. If you and a few friends are chatting about stuff at a bus stop and there are several normal people hanging around at the same stop who may overhear you, would you be more careful in the words you pick?