I agree with this. I am a moderator of the forum and I see it as my role to be very active in curating the forum for healthy dialogues and debates.
I will say this:
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You can find all kinds of criticism and debates on the developer forum.
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4 out of 5 times, when I see a bad post, it was already flagged by the community, not by the mods.
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I routinely make a habit of asking people to change their tone when I feel something is unnecessarily antagonistic. Here is a recent example: Direct Integration with Bitcoin - #586 by diegop
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Yes, some people and posts are banned and removed. This after all is a community and developer forum and some folks quite frankly are not interested in having healthy dialogues. This is not a secret. This is an unfortunate action me and other mods take for certain folks in order to have a healthy community. I can tell you that creating the level of dialogue in this community has been an multi-year investment and it is one I take quite seriously.