All communities need a dark side to level it out or they become what they don't want.
When I ran a forum 10 years ago, I had a guy that was infatuated with posting porn sites and underage girls. Of course in his country that was fine, but where I hosted the site it wasn't. We educated him to an extent and he stopped the underage girls (16+ nothing younger or we really would have had a problem.. he was of that age as well) but we let the random porn sites slide as they weren't breaking any laws and generally were harmless as he did post them in context most times. Also had a bunch of trolls that would lurk and cause problems. Since I was fairly good friends with them all they never really crossed the line publicly, more in chat, but for the forum to grow and stay active they were needed.
It's like running a one sided country, pushing out anyone that opposes your rule. It will be nice and all to start with but once you figure out that you have nobody who is a polar opposite to fight against, you will read problems into conversations with once like minded "friends" which will then result in further fragmentation of your "community" and in the end you are back at square one.
All communities need a dark side to level it out or they become what they don't want.
When I ran a forum 10 years ago, I had a guy that was infatuated with posting porn sites and underage girls. Of course in his country that was fine, but where I hosted the site it wasn't. We educated him to an extent and he stopped the underage girls (16+ nothing younger or we really would have had a problem.. he was of that age as well) but we let the random porn sites slide as they weren't breaking any laws and generally were harmless as he did post them in context most times. Also had a bunch of trolls that would lurk and cause problems. Since I was fairly good friends with them all they never really crossed the line publicly, more in chat, but for the forum to grow and stay active they were needed.
It's like running a one sided country, pushing out anyone that opposes your rule. It will be nice and all to start with but once you figure out that you have nobody who is a polar opposite to fight against, you will read problems into conversations with once like minded "friends" which will then result in further fragmentation of your "community" and in the end you are back at square one.