Remember this is about seats in the supreme court! Thatās explains why the same people telling you about how its about that rubber stamped the last xyz appointees. Also, everything is your fault.
Heās probably going to nominate a then-70 year old Merrick Garland because the most eDem thing ever would be to replace RBG or Breyer with a 70-year-old moderate.
I believe their philosophy involves users acting as a community to have control over their collective forum experience, not individual users having control over their personal forum experience.
Unlike traditional user forums where the corrective action is to ask an authority figure to step in and swat down a misbehaving user, our goal for Discourse is to allow (and encourage!) the user community to police itself while giving them the power to do so.
Hopefully this will be enough; I think giving participants the ability to easily ignore others avoids the process of giving the ātroublemakerā notice of what heās doing wrong. Sometimes itās not deliberate behaviour, yet sometimes itās accidental.
Rather than having a bunch of users ignored (which can lead to fragmented conversations), Iām hoping that the feeling of a community, together, asking a problem user to change his behaviour can better lead to Civilized Discourse.