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.
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.