What if there were a chanlike site where being nice is an actual rule? But no one tells you about it. The only way to find out nice is a rule is to show toxicity, and then you get rangebanned.
Furthermore, the site doesn't advertise any name, doesn't allow itself to be indexed by search engines (proliferates solely by posting links elsewhere), and regularly makes heavy automated changes to its URL, stylesheet, and IP address, such that there's no obvious identifying information for anyone to go complain about the site elsewhere.
The idea is that if no one has any way of finding out they have to be nice to participate, no one will be able to enter a mental state where they would bother trying to circumvent that rule. That is, if it's impossible for you to know ahead of time you'll get banned for not being nice, fake niceness to avoid being banned will be impossible, and everyone remaining will be nice for real.
people would figure it out in spite of all your attempts to prevent it and the site would never get off the ground in the first place trips confirm
Charles Young
"i want to make a website where everyone is nice but OF COURSE I DETERMINE WHAT'S NICE BECAUSE I KNOW THE BEST! OH THIS GUY SAID SOMETHING I DIDN'T LIKE? BANNED!!!"
Cameron Fisher
gotem
Isaiah Hernandez
Better corrupted by power than corrupted by the will of the people. If the webmaster turns rude -- or, a more likely form of corruption, simply stops moderating out of laziness -- then the website decoheres and fails to suit its purpose, true. But it's only one website. The users can then go somewhere else, and when they do, they'll be nice there, because they are nice users. Whereas the webmaster COULD go be mean or lazy somewhere else, but he'd only be one person.
