Post #1745045

I don't think it's unproductive at all. Positive changes and resistance to negative changes are caused by many, extremely different and complex factors, one of which is voiced discontent at all levels. It's a chain of pressures. Some elements press on other elements which are not the final target, but this pressure makes them in turn exert even more pressure closer to the target. Edit: take for instance the [Montgomery bus boycott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott) – was the bus company responsible for the law? shouldn't the black people have done the boycott then? Without such internal pressures, positive changes may fail. History shows examples over and over (a good read is the historian Barzun's [*From Dawn to Decadence*](https://ia600208.us.archive.org/31/items/DecadenceOfIntellectualLife/DawnAndDecadence.pdf)). I'm sure that if it wasn't me posting stuff like this, it'd be someone else, and maybe sharing a much less polite post. Also, I think that this kind of moderation ends up giving a very false picture on the forums, as if everyone discussing there doesn't really mind about the topic. I think developers *can* do something about it. They don't *want* to, maybe for obvious reasons, and I respect their choice. But there is a choice.