Encouraging civility and kindness is no risk to a community that is at its best when people are civil and kind. The campaign to promote civility and eradicate meanness has been waged publicly by Dang for over 18 months and more quietly by PG and other mods for long before that. The overall volume of contributions hasn&#x27;t gone down and the volume of thoughtful and substantive contributions had gone up, and for me it feels like a more safe and welcoming place in which to post thoughtful comments.<p>The point of the comment could have been made in a civil and thoughtful way if the commenter chose to do so, and when people do that, there is far more &quot;learning&quot; to be had and we all benefit.