[anigbrowl]

The censoring and removing posts of people you don't like starts to create an echo chamber

Yes, I'm very well aware of this. The thing is, I really don't care any more. When I was younger I used to think that if you would just keep peeling away the layers of awful from a vicious person eventually you'd find some root cause that would be worth fixing and so on. As I've gotten older I've come to the conclusion that some people are just assholes, are never going to change, and that studying them further is not going to result in any great revelation which will heal the world.

For myself, I don't worry about ending up in an echo chamber. I devote a certain amount of time to studying people I don't agree with - I've monitored neo-nazi forums and related pools of internet extremism for nearly 15 years as I have an interest in knowing what those people are up to and how they think and so on. So I'm not worried about my political instincts atrophying from only being exposed to opinions that I agree with.

On the other hand, when I'm not actively monitoring such people and just want to pass some pleasant time for my own enjoyment, I would really like if there was a way to just screen out bullshit and offensive chatter without sacrificing all social content in the process.