But it is also likely that there is someone out there who will be effected negatively by this site.
You mean, someone who would have made a positive contribution, but they were intellectually (or otherwise) sidetracked by what they read here? That hadn’t occurred to me. (Which is why my statement wasn’t “rhetorical dark arts”—I genuinely didn’t think of that possibility; I only thought in terms of “LW leads somewhere” or “LW leads nowhere”.)
You mean, someone who would have made a positive contribution, but they were intellectually (or otherwise) sidetracked by what they read here? That hadn’t occurred to me. (Which is why my statement wasn’t “rhetorical dark arts”—I genuinely didn’t think of that possibility; I only thought in terms of “LW leads somewhere” or “LW leads nowhere”.)
I apologize, I did not mean to give the connotation of malice on your part, merely danger for readers.