The thing is, this will happen to every new user who comes along, every "fresh blood", every new inspired hopeful life interested in the platform, everyone trying it out for the first time, because they are the ones who won't be able to "just ignore" because they won't know yet.

This reminds me of a post I saw a while ago called "The Missing Stair" about people ignoring abusers in their (imo, not-currently-a-recommended-activity-based) community.

I no longer think "just ignore and move on" is the correct solution a lot of the time, even though it's recommended commonly. Would someone recommend that for a disease? "Oh just ignore your warning sign of X serious condition!" Or for any other problem? If something wrong is occurring, it's a problem! We should be grateful we are able to detect it, and we should do something about it instead of letting it just fester and grow worse.

It should be an effective thing we do about it, of course. Perhaps the correct answer is to post pvp video game links where people can engage in trying to hurt and combat each other in a more stimulating way.

Publicly complaining about them only brings more of the same crap down upon yourself, imo.

This is a suppression of complaining speech then... encouraging self-censorship of discussion of problems seems exactly contrary to the spirit of a site where people want to call out "problems in the elite" or something (dedicated, agendized, divisive hatred of groups seems fine here but only if it's the right groups like "the elite," but that's another topic.)

If the admins don't enforce the pyramid then yes, you're right, people are going to come here and not use it and if nobody in charge does anything, it becomes the responsibility of the users individually to handle that problem. People start coming up with individual solutions for protection and management of shared problems like this when the people who're supposed to be looking after the space don't do it. Nobody would be offering a bunch of solutions about how to deal with it yourself unless it was already clear that no help would be forthcoming from the people who are supposed to be looking after the space.

Basically there is a LOT of leeway given in terms of warnings etc

they should make these public so participants are aware about how something is being addressed, or if it is being addressed at all.