Damned if its shared, damned if it isn't.

In other words, there is no course of action for discourse (no discourse if it isn't shared, banned if it is shared).

This may be a false dichotomy? Perhaps it could be shared elsewhere? But where else (other than here) is there such a concentration of people in tech?

At the risk of talking about fight club, the weekly culture war thread on /r/TheMotte is where I would post something like this, if I wanted discussion by smart people without the risk of it getting deleted.

This post was flagged while I was writing a comment. I had to "vouch" for it to get it unflagged -- I didn't see anything wrong with it.