This question can be easily dodged by permabanning bad posters.
Ban the bad posters (you know who I am talking about) and 90% of the posts in question will disappear.
Who are the "bad posters"? Some say that I am. There is a significant contingent here that desire this forum to be an Echo Chamber, much like a CNN panel. This category, and related categories "derailing" are being used to increase the infraction rate of people that many here (like myself) that some wish would just go away. It is already being used unfairly, and it is unfair in principle.
My message to Brave New Atlas management is this: Just go ahead and ban people. That's what you really want to do. Satisfy the desires of your heart! Ban the Neanderthals, even if they haven't violated the ToS in a decade. Do it because you can. But if this is going to be a discussion forum, let there be open discussion on the application of the principle of fairness here.
This isn't ridiculous. This is a POLITICS forum. Lots of people here have dreams of holding public office. A few already have, and others have run for office. Many here (myself included) have held party office. How fair people are here is an indication of how fair they'd be if they were ever elected to something of consequence.
The "bad posters" I am referring to are the teenage shock jocks who go out of their way to stir up sh**t, make a ton of work for moderators, derail otherwise interesting threads, and complain vociferously when they get the exact response they were baiting for, presumably all because their parents didn't hug them enough.
You are annoying sometimes (like right now) but you are not who I was talking about and nobody is interested in you being banned.
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