points by blooalien 19 hours ago | 0 comments
> The culture of having active discussions killed is way more frustrating and discouraging.
One concern I do have with the whole thing about killing active discussions when they're just trolling and flame-wars is that those people will then seek out other threads to invade because the one they were busy with is no longer available to them. Perhaps some form of magic "shadow ban" so that they can still see and interact with the thread if they so desire? Keep 'em busy so that they do less damage elsewhere?
The answer is to just let people talk about what they want to talk about. One person's "flame-war" is another person's meaningful conversation. No one is forced to read or participate in threads, and those people shouldn't have the ability to kill a conversation for those who do.