Your reputation is scaring them off - anyone squaring up for a bit of jousting needs to have all their arguments carefully prepared and finally tuned before they begin.

It sounds like going thermonuclear is JF's strategy when anyone dares question him or he reads anything other people don't like. JF can't be reached, but then he's pretty heavy handed on the old block button, so he'll eventually just cancel himself out. Medium don't tend to be curating as much of the insane identity stuff these days, or maybe they're not showing it. I'm having a bumper time being a contrarian. I only really started to get curated again in March once GEN et al went in the bin.

It's great that people are coming to you for some reassurance instead of just folding at the first sign of crazy, that gives me faith in the great Medium experiment. I saw you'd converted someone to a moderate the other day and I got very excited. :o)