[reader5000]

> evidence indicated that rationality and clear arguments weren't winning

On what grounds do you base your own sense of "rationality and clear argument" as superior to that of the apparent majority of people that you refer to as "the cesspool"?

[amanaplanacanal]

How did you get the idea that the majority are the cesspool from that?

In my experience, the majority is "I don't have any interest in arguing." Leaving the cesspool to those few who do want to argue.

[clucas]

The whole conversation is a bit abstract at this point, so maybe it wasn't clear: the "cesspool" I'm referring to are virulent racists.

If you believe that either (a) arguments against such people less clear and rational than the racists' arguments, or (b) such people are actually in the majority, then I believe we disagree on things so fundamental we can't have a constructive debate about Reddit's policies.