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comment by hogwild
hogwild  ·  3199 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The limitations of the moderation system

I'm capable of paying no attention to racist comments, and I don't even need the mute option. The problem is that when I see, say, a racist comment, I know that a lot of people probably lost interest in the site upon seeing it. And those people, not the racists, are the ones I would like to be in an online community with.

Not only that, but a safe haven for trolls will draw enough trolls that I see racist comments frequently. On Reddit, in the default subs, you can meet a new racist every day. The personal blocking option doesn't scale.