The prominent user who left recently made me realize that while this place is a lot less full of bigotry than reddit, that is a low fucking bar.
What are concrete steps users and mods can take to make this a more welcoming space? I'm assuming the majority of the bigotry is coming from inside the house, bar the occasional raid.
Banning shitstains is good and all, but that is only a part of community management. How do we proactively create a better user culture here? How do we better establish norms of behavior?
Are there other communities that do a better job of it, and if so, how do they do it? That's an honest question - I'm pretty limited in public internet circles outside of chapo because I found it to be a better place than most. But it's easier to learn from others and from past experiences than to try to re-invent the wheel.