[bawolff]

Are you suggesting online communities should resolve disputes through lawsuits? That sounds terrible to me.

Imagine if on hacker news, if your comment broke a rule, that instead of dang deleting it, you got sued! I don't think that would make a good community.

[Aloisius]

I think they're suggesting that court is the American police officer dispute resolution process - in response to the "American police officers don't have that" bit.