"Everyone's so open and friendly" is a lie

[Kolsykol]

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Cheers !

I think that there is a difference between saying that someone can't have an opinion, and between expecting a base level of respect.

The problem with just letting people run loose on the internet is that you end up with people who are completely deranged and unhinged hijacking it.
You get a handful of extremely toxic people who just spam and take over the whole thing and then any normal person just ends up not talking.
Sometimes some peoples freedoms actually compromises the freedom of other people.

To me this is like not letting people take a dump in the street.
Yes it's a limitation on your freedom, but I think that we can basically all agree that we don't want the streets to smell like shit.

The issue is that people who are really toxic just bring the entire thing down.
If you have a group of five people and everyone is having fun and getting along and then one just starts lashing out it brings the entire thing down for the other four.
Why is that one person ranting more important than the four having a good time?

It brings down the entire atmosphere for everyone.