I don&#x27;t think that it&#x27;s fair to describe criticism of this as against being considerate, it&#x27;s more like, against imposing some people&#x27;s ideas of how people should talk to each other on to unwitting users of some Internet service. Some people are assholes on the Internet, undoubtedly, and these people take up WAY too much space, but I don&#x27;t think that this is a sensible way of dealing with the problem. Things like downvoting, blocking etc work by penalising the baddies, not by making everyone confirm to some artificial idea of what intelligent discourse looks like.