Fair enough. But just say you want carte blanche to act however the fuck you want because it's fun, dude. We don't need all this baloney about wanting to deradicalize anyone.
I don't want carte Blanche to act how you want that's why I wrote the COC to ensure mutual respect for each other, and radicalization is caused by being pushed into echo chambers. You get into areas gradually where purity spirals occur and this radicalization process happens.
Terry Nichols didn't engage with anyone who could attack his premises. The Columbine kids had a philosophy they had perfected before their mass shooting. They didn't have anyone to push back on their nihilistic takes and they were nihilists, which is why the basement tapes weren't released. It was believed the basement tapes would cause more shootings because they were apparently pretty persuasive, but if they would have been allowed on Dart to express their disdain for humanity and none of these nihilistic takes can be challenged by your average person so you need to interact with debaters who are skilled in a variety of subjects.
Pedophiles is another example. There are a lot that seek help to avoid offending or to stop offending. These are referred to as non offending pedophiles. However there is a large group who just aren't welcome on your average forum where you could find people to debate with so they get pushed to corners of the internet where nobody is challenging their premises where they argue that pedophilia is healthy.
There is a very real threat of being pushed into ideological spirals by continually being pushed out of places that are capable of deradicalizing you to get pushed into new places where you gain points by being a purist.
Yes there is a negative consequences of banning parody accounts for example but there are many other reasons why free speech is important and I do have lines I draw just not in what ideal can be expressed or in the words used to express those ideals.
I think you were on DDO and saw the wide variety of opinions and the superior quality of debaters, so you know this is also true that it's good for the health of the site the weekly stupid for example was something that increased site engagement and was fun and this is coming from a guy who hated imabench.
I know it's tempting to only think of the first order effects of banning words like nigger or banning racism in general in a site that literally requires unpopular opinions to be functional, but I urge you to think of the second order effects and give some push back on these dangerous ideals that are creating a sinking ship
