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> Eventually, after some fairly harsh replies, he went away, and the pages stand to this day.

Which brings up the point I was going to make about TFA. If 'toxic' comments are an effective way to reduce the impact of bad editors, then it's not clear that 'toxic' comments have a negative effect on the quality of Wikipedia. They might be improving it.




Just to be clear, I wasn't toxic (although unclear what the definition exactly is), I just vigorously called him out on his bullshit.




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