What makes you believe that YOU know how it should be done? I am not saying that people shouldn't be nice but over and over and over we see these tech companies embark on social justice missions to set guidelines that end up backfiring because they underestimate the complexity of the range of possible human behavior.
At best, rules generally dont get enforced equally and at worst they become a disaster that affects the inner workings of what made the site worth visiting in the first place.
And this right here tells me what to expect will happen in the future
> the nice thing about problems that relate to how people feel is that finding the truth is easy. Feelings have no “technically correct.”
I love stack overflow and would hate to see it devolve into something that deviates from what it truly is about: code.