Agreed. What's the point of these threads? It's just a bunch of people grinding axes. Over the last year, I've rarely seen anything other than misinformation and vitriol come out of them.

dang said this about moderation:

> The idea is not to maintain a centrist position, it's to try to keep the community from wrecking itself via ideological fracture.

These threads seem like a prime vector of ideological fracture. (And may result in people making poor medical decisions to boot.)