The other thing of course that we do is a mixed reality debate. This is something very very technical but I think the most important of the four. We use our own discussion forum system. Unlike Facebook this allows a moderator to modify and to edit people’s comments. On Facebook when you’re facing a real comment or discussion or any other forum system 90% are good contributions but 10% are ad hominem attacks. All the editors are faced with a conundrum because if you censor that message then people would call you out and then people would be very angry. But if you allow that to continue the next reply tends to be 20% more than usual another attack and then the next one will be more and more toxic because people respond to the toxic parts. Then after five replies people started posting cat pictures and at that point all discussion is lost.

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