Tarquin Rees
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@Tarquin Rees, I feel you, but I've yet to encounter a situation where banning someone's ideas was productive or encouraging.
It's difficult to quantify I think though I tend to agree. How would we know though? As an example take the old Fortean Times boards: back in the day used to be a great place to discuss religion/politics whatever. No-one was ever banned because no-one needed to be. Disagreements happened but it was all self-policed.
Now it's full of Islamophobes, alt-right and Neo-atheists who shut down anything that is not a rinse-repeat of their views. So no discussion is possible and all the thinking reasoned members (like me! lol) stay away. A few judicious bans in the pre-virus stage there would have been very productive. Could have saved the forum.