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 Hey aint gotta take the advice of a guy that ran the most popular leftists irc channel for 7 years, including during the Tea Party bullshit. 

As a mod I wasnt borne into and molded by right wing hate, sealioning before it was called that, gish galloping, argumentum ad igorantium.

Yall seem to be doing great as is, Strawmanning and Sealioning anarchist transwomen cuz vibes.

Keep running your gated communities with gatekeepers who conflate hate and personal dislike. 

Yall got this. 
 Doing a blocklist with unverified any one person contributing who goes rogue and lumps personal dislike with hate is a folly.

Pooling biased subjective takes doesnt necessarily result an intersubjective pool of data from which matreially more accurate or better results flow. 

If the substituent ingredients for something includes dogshit, you still get dogshit results. 

See: Cochrane's Mask study. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/27/dont-believe-those-who-claim-science-proves-masks-dont-work 
 Building an information silo does not solve for critical thinking errors.