Why is DU in a gender war anyway?

[TheKentuckian]

156. I dunno, seemed to be so predictable at the time as to be a near lock. I tend to find it difficult

to just accept the most obvious and likely outcomes to be accidentally arrived at.

The new policy seems to be a double down rather than a correction. I tend to believe most of the rule "innovations" are message discipline strategies to prop up economically conservative, authoritarian leaning statist partisans well beyond their numbers and to bog up the flow of liberal conversation as dominant without having to be seen as putting a thumb on the scales.

The paradigm bakes in a structural advantage to those with little concern for free expression and encourages the unscrupulous, particularly with those focused on spin control or message domination to form alert gangs under cover of darkness.

Those of us philosophically bent toward the greatest possible observation of free speech cannot win the game theory at play here, we cannot function in the same way tactically and as such, the curve must bend their way no matter how absurd the number advantages.

The resistance to transparency and limits for alerts and to my mind transparency for juries (yes, I sign mine and explain my vote) is what makes me tend to think this is intentional design rather than surprising outcome, all corrective efforts bolster spin control and encourage drama seekers to act monkey. The thin skinned and perpetually outraged are provisioned with a machine gun with infinite ammo and ZERO accountability, in fact actually treated as protected.

I'm sure it is possible that I'm misreading the situation but I'm just saying how it reads to me from my vantage point and frame of reference brought into the dynamic.