I concur, lobsters is already mostly an echo chamber for hyper-sensitive paranoid-types. My account is in good standing but you can't speak freely without severe punishment. I still like @pushcx, but it's different.

I appreciate the author taking the time to write this. lobsters is definitely a bit heavy-handed on the moderation and rules front, but also has generally much higher quality discourse compared to what you can expect from HN.

In reality I wish there were more highly active tech-nerd-programming-news-forum sites without eternal-september levels of noobs than just HN and lobsters. I've even entertained the idea of starting my own site and played around with the lobsters source code, but at the end of the day being an Internet site moderator is a tough job. Knowing myself I couldn't do it alone for an extended period of time. I'm no Dang.

There really is no perfect solution today. Humans are simultaneously the best and the absolute worst.