It’s true to say that, by quitting or speaking out against social media, they’ve protested in some broad sense, but a broad protest wasn’t the original idea that I objected to; I objected to the idea that every attack and act of disrespect needs a response.

“who has also expressed the idea that all public disrespect merits a response in some form?”

The first off the top of my head would be Maggie Haberman of the NY Times who left Twitter temporarily over its lack of policing/effective ways to deal with trolls. But Google returns a lot of results for critics of social media’s lack of effective moderation. Again, it would depend on your definition of major figure,…

I still haven’t seen any substantial support for why you’re right and they’re all wrong.

Again, your claim about respect is only meaningful if everyone in the world has your level of interaction, public success, and priorities in communication.

Are they suffering? Are they mutely accepting that disrespect? It sounds like you approve of their choices to quit social media, but accordingyour own argument, they’re accepting all the disrespect that they’re not responding to in some way, whether with speech, dismissal, blocking, banning, flagging, deletion, etc.

Google Celebrities who don’t use social media. It’s a surprisingly long list.

All of those celebrities and other public figures know that engaging with some of that disrespect on a superficial level (blocking and reporting in an ineffectual system) helps, but the world they exist in isn’t actively moderated, and trying to will it so by not ignoring anything is exhausting and gives more voice…

yet with the exception of AMAs, few public figures use Reddit as a venue for major exchanges of ideas.

are you smarter than all of them, or is it possible that they understand something that you don’t?

Since responding is apparently a strawman

Would we really be better off with every lunatic or troll who disrespects a politician getting a personalized government-sanctioned public response, no matter how dismissive?

Dodge dodge dodge. You’re always content to nitpick about words and context from your post, yet you’re happy to pull a word out of context from my posts to summarily dismiss them.

Ooh, this pulling old contradictory quotes thing is fun. I should have started it earlier.

an actively moderated thread on Kinja would look passive on some (but not all) subreddits.

I get the difference between passive and active moderation, though any definition would be pretty arbitrary and be solely based on proving your previous point.

What’s a site where moderators actively respond to every bad post and don’t do any deletion, banning, or flagging?

Flagging, banning, and other moderating works better.

You’re still afraid to answer the question, and still have to grasp at straws to avoid it.

I can’t tell if that’s another dodge or another failure at reading comprehension.