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Banning individual trolls is whack-a-mole. The research points somewhere else: online hate is driven more by the environment it happens in than by any one person. Here is what that means for protecting people.
Abusive comments reach players every week, and the game has largely treated it as an unavoidable cost of visibility. It isn’t. The tools to protect a whole squad now exist, the barrier is deployment, not technology.