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These are valid points. If this was my personal forum, I would act much differently and have many more comments on these behaviors. But then, it would be a very different forum. I participated in a StackExchange experiment about religion, and they shut it down after a few months, declaring it is not possible to tightly moderate that discussion. I’m not about to try to be a one-man show that can somehow get these conversations working when they’ve been stalled out for centuries.

My opinion is that internet forums are successful when they find a mix of fun with the dry logic and facts. This includes some creative language. It helps to have skin that is not terribly thin. I’m here to click a button that deletes the spam and occasionally copy and paste from the rules. I hope it remains rare that lines get crossed and the 7 words you can’t say on TV get used.

I won’t respond directly to long lists like this with no links. That’s asking me to go searching for the context and find patterns. If I saw those patterns I would have already said something.