Could LFGSS still work with a "no asshole" rule?

2 things:

i) We'd be better off implementing a 'no arsehole rule'.

ii) A lot of bullying/arsehole types are skilled manipulators and deceivers (often unconsciously/habitually) and people on the receiving end of their poison take a while (anywhere between hours and months, or even years) to realise they've been made to feel oppressed etc. Therefore the rule would be most effective against less subtle oppressors, which I suppose is a good place to start, although they're not the ones who cause the deepest wounds.

this.

Folk naming DJ, Slain, Pisti are going for easy targets-they're opinionated and highly visible on the site. But also fucking funny (imhop) and contribute a lot of knowledge and advice as long as you aren't being a dirty great weapon and are familiar with the search function.

There's plenty times (OnOneLangster a classic, more recently nyquil) where the forum has policed itself pretty well against 'rare' folk being sustained and determined dickheads, the thing that I think is most destructive is when folk are going over the top without any real need (e.g a recent thread posted by a noob that had no bad intentions and ended up getting flamed and tagged 'fuck off and die'.) which just creates a nasty vibe.

The flipside is that a lot of threads now seem to be an exercise in not provoking/offending anyone and well, pretty dull for the sake of it. You learn pretty quick that debates/arguments that are inevitably just going to turn into flame wars by people trying to antagonise so are fucking pointless and probably discourage folk from posting, which I find odd because most cyclists I meet in the real world are seemingly very decent, agreeable folks.

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