@wjmaggos @jeremiah @Moon @realcaseyrollins

> I think you can screen out these people.

You also keep talking but I don't think you read what I write, because you keep suggesting solutions to problems that I don't care about.

I don't want to play hall monitor and I think the presumption that anyone ought to be telling adults to behave themselves is part of the problem. Although I believe the instance-blocking behavior is absurd, I'm not trying to stop them. I would like them to stop lying, but you don't have a solution to that: it's intractable, they're just shitty people, and they believe nothing is immoral if it targets the outgroup.

It is the case that the people that cause trouble have very little to do with most of the instance-blocks FSE has gotten. If you want to understand this, it's the same reason the people that shriek about loli hentai use "pedophilia" as the grounds for their panic while ignoring the actual explicitly pedophile-friendly instances. The stated objections people have to FSE have nothing to do with the actual objections, and, as I have pointed out several times (each time with cititations and I have more), your insistence that these are people observing bad behavior and then acting is absurd.

Here, here's some more reading material: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ . Unlike the Searle article or Snyder v. Phelps or my small piece on what constitutes freedom of speech, this one is somewhat long but extremely relevant to the discussion of over-socialized clique behavior on the internet.

Further, these people take an active, over-socialized approach to maintaining their social hierarchy. FSE does not exist to build a community or prop up a social hierarchy. Please tell me why you think it is my place to try to tell adults how to behave.

Now, I am making the point moot by producing some software. I am tearing the building down and replacing it and there will not only be no gatekeeping but there will be no *possibility* of gatekeeping and no source-based filtering. If you're not going to read what I write, please just leave me to my work.