I think that the detox week reeks of the terrible practice of faux "safespaces" and the inclination of technical people to not be as politically involved as they should be and simply deny the importance.

That said, it's not my website and if they want to try this for a week, we can. At the end of the week though, I expect that we'll have a discussion about it and hash out if it was a good decision or not.

(Im really hoping they'll release a list of posts that were flagged as part of political detox, so we can talk explicitly about which parts we think are good or bad to ban.)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404

Thanks for the link, I saw this post yesterday and completely disagree with the "experiment".

You can see dang messed with one of my comment chains last week because my decent arguments "incited flame wars".

It's all fake and silly micromanagement over a non-existent problem