“There are several parties where people act appropriately.”

This guy is Holofernes. Mayhap not an object of pity, depending on one’s perspective.

Still dodging? Still no citation? If you can’t produce a single example of a well-moderated space,

I’ve seen some very small subreddits that are well-moderated where trolls and hate are dealt with decently, but disrespect is still rife and often goes unaddressed.

Care to divulge any of the subreddits that have eradicated trolls, hateful comments, and disrespect?

You cited Reddit as well-moderated, and it is a veritable cesspool of trolls and hate.

I scanned back looking for some of that evidence, all I found was whining about strawmen and idiot liars. Care to refresh my memory? Remember (I know this is hard for you), that your claim to defend is “always respond,” not “kinda generally respond but more than Twitter.”

“not responding to an instance of disrespect is always accepting it.

You can’t find a single smart person in the field that agrees with you that every act of disrespect needs a response

Silence doesn’t have to mean you walk away, you just don’t feed it.

Any person who has spent time camping can tell you walking away from a lit fire is a really bad idea unless you’ve taken active steps to put it out. 

there are also counterexamples where bad actors on social media had content deleted or were banned and got to cry “Free Speech” and bask in martyrdom, getting more power than they deserved.

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…