[Mithaldu]

Reading this has made me find words i've been looking for for months now, and maybe you will at least see these, hopefully even think about them:

As an idealistic goal your policies are great. In practice however i find they sorely underestimate the differential in effort required between:

- someone who has to censor their earnest thoughts preemptively to not be censured by you

and

- a troll gleefully dressing up words they know will hurt in dressing nice enough to fly under your radar

You're asking the former to spend a lot more time and work, than it takes the latter, for whom it's a form of playing, a game they enjoy. I don't have a solution, but i think it's true that your policies have a chilling influences on earnest voices and are creating a community where trolls are very loud.

[_dps]

Consider the possibility that what you perceive as "a troll saying intentionally awful things dressed up as polite language" may be a person who sincerely disagrees with you, and is also being polite about it. That seems to be the highest form of ideas interacting, no?

[Mithaldu]

That consideration is baked into my post. They fall under category 1 as well.

[dang]

It's impossible to reply to that in the abstract. I'd need to see links to comments that you think are gleefully trolling while evading moderation.

[Mithaldu]

If i felt comfortable discussing that in public i'd already have done so.

My point is that the state of things here is silencing voices who simply stop bothering to post, while you let toxic people and their posts remain after a slap on the wrist.

[Mithaldu]

Actually, you know what. Just ban me. This evening on this site has been another wasteful drain and i've barely even posted. I'm changing my email and password to random noise now.