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Yeah, trusting someone to make right decisions is hard because this trust usually ends up being betrayed sooner or later.
Regarding the first part, I meant that we as a community can't put enough pressure on a bully to make em leave, if that bully is part of the community that supports em.
Ah, but that's the beauty of it. Why are they here? If it's to troll, don't give them what they want. If it's for social interaction... Why are they venturing out of their echo chamber?
Every interaction with a community pulls you slightly closer to the group consensus. You can fight it to some extent, but we're wired to fit in with the tribe
Social rejection is wired similar to pain in our brains - it's far more salient, far more memorable and impactful, than normal interactions.
The highest form of this is rejection by the community - it hurts most when everyone's attention is on you and they all reject you. Even a single person quietly reaching out afterwards is like a lifeline - it stands out to you. It takes hundreds or thousands of "normal" interactions to counteract one extreme negative one
A supportive community back home doesn't counteract the impacts from an away game. Don't go to their turf, let them come to ours. Do not feed them - we have better content, they'll lose members to us, and if we do it right they'll shrink until their echo chambers can no longer sustain themselves
Maybe you're right and it could work. I'm afraid there's always a share of sociopaths this will not affect, but this may be seen as impossible to fix anyway. What I am also afraid of is that the speed of changes is glacial in this model, and sometimes people are bullied into suicide in the course of mere weeks