Seems like a bit of a broad brush to paint with my friend. Plenty of places are building roundabouts

Jannies have never been good at relating to people, and reddit admins are like the jannies’ janny. Ban-happiness is inevitable.

Forums are an interesting model for real life human social structures. If you operate your social structural group in such a way that the only way of meting out punishment is exclusion, eventually you can create an outgroup that becomes a threatening competitor.

When your containment board is another website, you lose.