an outsider coming in during a purge is not going to have a good impression of the place
What's the solution, though? Never get rid of reactionaries and wreckers? Try to do it slowly and quietly, even though part of the wrecking strategy is to whine about the oppression of getting your account banned (even though you can literally start up another one right away)?
There are a million reasons someone might check out a new place on the internet and nope out. We can't remove them all, and we shouldn't remove the ones that serve a legitimate purpose.
Wreckers can be easier to spot than others, because they're writing lots of weird comments and wrecking. But the real solution is to recruit lots of new users from places you know are good and have them drown out the bad stuff. This is the internet, you can't moderate stuff that can get posted like hundreds of times a second.
What's the solution, though? Never get rid of reactionaries and wreckers? Try to do it slowly and quietly, even though part of the wrecking strategy is to whine about the oppression of getting your account banned (even though you can literally start up another one right away)?
There are a million reasons someone might check out a new place on the internet and nope out. We can't remove them all, and we shouldn't remove the ones that serve a legitimate purpose.
Wreckers can be easier to spot than others, because they're writing lots of weird comments and wrecking. But the real solution is to recruit lots of new users from places you know are good and have them drown out the bad stuff. This is the internet, you can't moderate stuff that can get posted like hundreds of times a second.