DU used to be a board where one could call out ignorant opinons.

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24. The altrenative is not going to be pleasant for most people. Think Discussionist without juries.....

I thought the way you did until I did a term on MIRT. After seeing the HUGE amount of dismal stuff that could have been posted here, I think the system is at least 80-90% effective. There are some things juried or removed I think are OK, but there's also some that aren't cut that I feel should have been. It certainly has made me consider how I form my responses when I disagree with someone.

The trouble with merely calling out things is that there are too many that take being called out as an invitation to spew flame and to troll fights and derail the conversation for those of us here to learn and teach. If I wanted a "robust" free for all under what starts out as free speech that turns into digital diarrhea I wouldn't be here. If some code of civility is enforced to promote free speech, I can live with it if only because I feel free for alls aren't necessarily free speech particularly when its all about anti-Semitism, racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, and purely personal invective, meant to disrupt and insult.