I find those prejudgement political games damaging as well to the point that I'm fantasizing about absurd ideas like anonymous version of slack/hn like chat where messages don't have identities to push it slightly towards merit based conversations. Upvote on messages/threads, not user accounts etc. I don't mean anonymous usernames, I mean no identity at all or at most random identities per message, sticky on reply chain (to know the original author answered your question at most).