[jleyank]

Gresham’s law applies to discussions as well. There’s two ways to deal with an obnoxious participant: endeavour to eject or mute them or go elsewhere and leave them their empty room. If everywhere on the internet is private space (per the article), then nobody really has a right to be anywhere - my house, my rules. Don’t like my rules, then go elsewhere and set up your rules.

Commercial sites need customers, so they have to edit the clientele in order to survive. Smaller sites, commercial or not, are like clubs and they can set their membership rules as desired. The former gets the bland middle ground. The latter handles the edges. Most people will just go elsewhere when faced with noise.