I have to wonder how much of our complaints are born of our collective inaction. Despite bettering trends, the deep implications of prohibition, including outlets for underlying frustration such as these, are still just symptoms. The face of anonymity takes a form that we do not like because of underlying angst and dissatisfaction grown of prior willingness to closet collective desires and not demand better. Without such rigid motivations, what would be the tone of anonymous social discourse? Forums are born of the tone set by the standards of the people populating the votes and voices of the past. The back and forth of which we are all sometimes guilty, those conflicting symptoms of the same disease shading the satisfaction of our collective expectations - our desire to be more right than that guy, to not be wrong - will always keep us apart if we allow it. I may be an exception, but I can take or leave anything said or written here. However, I do see the potential. Bigtaco, Stow, Alien, Chuck, Bugeye, Dr. P, I hear all of the people with which I've clashed and our confrontation quells something of a revolutionary spirit each time I decay to that, a decade ago, well that decade is gone. The impropriety of my treatment of those who share the same underlying frustrations and resultant plight is not lost on me, but it is not something on which I focus either.
The removal of systematic resistance to the caring system of which you speak and that which we all conceptualized in 2008 and saw in some areas being worked out through to 2010 and 11, may come back.