Maybe &quot;positive&quot; wasn&#x27;t the right word for us to use.<p>Let me explain what we meant, because it&#x27;s not that at all. I completely agree that negative content has a place and is valuable. Not being able to disagree or only being able to say nice things defeats the purpose of conversation.<p>Our goal, and what we meant by using the word &quot;positive&quot; is that Imzy, and the communities on it, enrich people&#x27;s lives in a positive way. That doesn&#x27;t mean every comment, post, or discussion is positive. It means that I come away a better, more informed person from the discussions I have, or maybe I just enjoy my time there.<p>What that means is that extreme or sustained harassment that makes people unhappy, fear for their lives, or feel like they can&#x27;t participate isn&#x27;t okay. Communities that exist solely for hate aren&#x27;t cool. But disagreement and even voicing opinions that are very unfavorable can still exist. Even saying mean things to people is okay, unless that&#x27;s all you do all day following around a user or something. We all become better people when we can share our own perspectives and hear the perspectives of others, <i>especially</i> when they are different from our own. Otherwise you end up with an echo chamber.<p>As an aside, this article also makes a big deal out of the &quot;warmer, fuzzier&quot; part of Imzy, and they&#x27;re also the ones who used the words &quot;safe place,&quot; not us. Are we trying to make things a little less toxic than we&#x27;ve seen some other places? Yeah, absolutely. But that&#x27;s honestly a really small part of why we built Imzy and what makes us different from other platforms.<p>We&#x27;ve tried to build a really broad, flexible platform that makes it so communities can do all the things they want to in one place, with a developer platform to make sure that&#x27;s possible. We&#x27;ve built in a payments system. We&#x27;ve designed it to be more user and mobile friendly instead of an outdated forum style. Those are honestly the things that I care most about, and the possibilities they open are what I think will have the biggest impact on hopefully making Imzy a really viable community platform that I want to work on, not the things that we&#x27;re trying to prevent.<p>Hope that helps explain our thinking. I&#x27;m happy to elaborate further if you have any questions.