I was thinking about forums and how much better they were the other day. One reason, the main reason, was because they learned lessons from Usenet and stopped any flame wars in their tracks. These social media networks didn’t and have let our entire society devolve into a giant flame war. We need systems to force people out of heated conversations and ensure they are engaging in good faith. This requires human moderation but we could surely build tooling to detect if a conversation is heated and force people to take a breather.