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TS, what if you owned a philosophy website. How could you prevent it from being overrun by trolls?

I have seen sites with minimal moderation and I found it all rather too "robust". That is, at times the ad homs significantly outnumber content posts. It's a shame because I also don't like rules and restrictions and prefer to let things go. But I stick with the provided agenda by the person who paid the money and did the work in setting up and fixing bugs.

The problem with the usual libertarian economics is that an important function of government is to maintain stability, which is always undermined when the wealthy utilise economies of scale to increase their advantage. The trickle down effect is, to some extent, a con. Yes, money will trickle down - but only after it gushes upwards. Decades of upwards gushing and ever slowing trickles down (as companies buy their own shares) can only result in a wealth gap, and this increases unrest, crime, mental illness, healthcare load, court and prison costs, and so forth. This all undermines a society's stability.

In terms of moderation, it means more spam and trolls.
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Greta wrote: March 12th, 2020, 9:00 pm TS, what if you owned a philosophy website. How could you prevent it from being overrun by trolls?
I wouldn't, really. The only thing I'd delete would be spamming a la either advertising or someone posting the same thing over and over--especially starting a bunch of threads with the same thing over and over.

Trollish topics that don't have much to do with philosophy I'd just move to an off-topic section.

Re insults, partially because of my philosophical views, where I see "individuals doing (often different) things" as a crucial part of many concerns, but where we ridiculously try to remove that from the equation (a la the general rejection of "psychologism," which I believe was an idiotic move), I think it's problematic to think that insults necessarily have to be avoided, because people often say things because they don't reason very well, stances are often rooted in persons' particular neuroses, psychological quirks, psychological hang-ups, etc. We can't remove individuals thinking about things in unique ways from any human activity, because that's a huge part of why things are said, why things are done, etc.
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I have seen too many threads spiral into pure abuse on other forums. If this forum became like that I would simply leave, as would most others, and leave it to the hard-heads.
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