Why the hate for wisdom?

[Jade]

I just find the enforcement of rules a little hypocritical.

That's the whole point I'm trying to make, that we are seeking to be more consistent with enforcement of the rules. In my opinion this means more moderation, not less, because our rules are extensive. This doesn't mean we will start banning people left and right and removing posts all the time, it just means more consistency, which I think everyone is asking for, even you.

If someone gets their account removed from Youtube, or Facebook, or Twitter, yes, this is "deplatforming". There is no replicating Twitter, etc, so when you remove their access to that platform, you are removing a huge swath of their reach. We don't IP ban so, much like deleting a sock puppet, if someone wants to make another account and come back and play a little nicer, they can still use this platform.

Seriously though anagogy, this is a huge strawman, because we've already established that we agree that removing posts that are a personal attack is not "deplatforming". I can only think of two people that I know of who have been banned since I've been moderator, and it was because both of them had an absolute melt down behind the scenes. And as I said before, this extremely archaic "platform" is very easily and freely replicable if you want to create your own offshoot. Heck, if you put a bit of advertising into it, you'd probably create an even further reach than this forum has! It's not fair to hijack someone else's platform - and this was made in Carla's vision. Carla preferred the path of martyrdom/green ray, clearly. I think if her hand was on the ban button she would be extremely less lenient than we are now, because the type of language people get away with using towards each other here is far too extreme. People don't talk like this to each other in real life, and I think she would be shocked if she knew how people talk to each other behind a guise of anonymity on the internet. Maybe I'm being presumptuous, but I think we are too desensitized to being disrespectful towards each other, and our threshold for being disrespected is much higher on the internet. Carla was an old lady who, thank goodness, never really had to be a part of the free speech zone that is the world wide web. I'm under the assumption that Carla would be "on the side" of "SJWs" who seek "political correctness", these of course just being buzz words for "people who stand up to bullies who are mean to people".