You could of course extend this scheme, and construct all sorts of scores—such as a “liberal-conservative score”, with whose help you could block anyone whose political opinions are insufficiently close to yours. That would be a very bad idea, in my view. Scores of this sort should only be used to combat harassment, threats and other forms of anti-social behaviour, and not to exclude any dissenter from discussion.
You give people a tool to build echo chambers, they will build echo chambers for themselves. Your views on what constitutes a “bad idea” would be irrelevant at this point. Not to mention that many interpret the existence of people “whose political opinions are insufficiently close” as harassment and threat by itself.
You give people a tool to build echo chambers, they will build echo chambers for themselves. Your views on what constitutes a “bad idea” would be irrelevant at this point. Not to mention that many interpret the existence of people “whose political opinions are insufficiently close” as harassment and threat by itself.