Here is an example of the new policy in action. The response was swift, the punishment an effective deterrant without being excessive. My only regret is that a thread with some definite merit to it was shut down because of three words... On the whole, the response was very good, but I wish there had been a way around ending the conversation.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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