good post

This user specifically, though, was called out on like a weekly basis, wasting dozens of hours of comrade’s labor trying to help them learn, and invariably each time crashing out and blocking the comrade engaging with them. They got reported many times before this latest crashout.

This is the kind of person that needs to be excised from a community quickly, without wasting effort that could be spent teaching others. Especially online where there are limited stakes and a single person can disproportionately influence the culture of a site by being always online.

We have finite time and there are too many shitheads to carefully explain to the ones that won’t listen. Organize the advanced, educate the intermediate, and isolate the backwards. Sometimes people in the party are backward enough that they need to be purged.