@tunguska true. you didn’t. I did. because of what your statements imply to me. Explicitly you seem to be saying that real name polices haven’t curbed abuse. To me this implies that curbing abuse is the goal.

Switching to language with active agency, that means those who abuse must be prevented or dissuaded from persisting in their abusive behaviors. This prevention or dissuasion is the punishment applied, at least that is how I understand it.

And I’m not aiming this comment at you \@tunguska, because we all do it, but the steady fading away of agency in our language, to formulate so many things directly under our control as if they were not under our control, under anyones control, like weather events—well, its' corrupting and diminishing to conceptualize our existence as merely reaction. The passivity is most cherished by those whose actions are obscured or completely invisible as a result.