&gt;Back in the day they had to close their eyes and ignore. Now in the day they craft software that ignores and filters out toxic behavior before it even gets to their eyes. ;) You think we&#x27;re regressing?<p>Yes, I do.<p>Software could have been, and always can be, improved at the &quot;regex level&quot; (finding bad worse, slanderous words, etc.) but the money is now in catering an experience to where things one <i>simply disagrees with</i> can create a false positive as &quot;toxic behavior.&quot;   And it often does.<p>The dialogue has completely regressed, and will continue to do so as long as catering to as wide an audience as possible is the Modus Operandi of Internet 2.x<p>And it&#x27;s quite simplistic to write off the past as &quot;closing ones eyes and ignoring.&quot; At the very least, IRC channels had moderators.