Put them back on? Don’t you mean pull them back up?

What exactly is going on here?

Why shouldn’t she have tweeted? Seems she is getting positive results! Good for her.

If you’re driving down the road and someone throws shit in your face from the sidewalk can you just not roll up the window? If so, just use the tools that you have.

Nah, the proper tool is to ban people like you.

That doesn’t solve the problem.

“When you to tell someone to ‘just mute comms’ to avoid harassment, you are essentially putting the harassed person in a position to not communicate,” said Donlon. “To compromise how they want to play the game to accommodate you.”

“Competitive games need to have room for banter. We believe this, and I do understand the fear that we will sanitise gaming by ‘over-addressing’ these issues,” Donlon continued. “We have no interest in doing that. But we do believe that a person should not have to be in a position to ‘grow a thicker skin’ or whatever other unhelpful suggestions have been thrown out there just to avoid threats of violence or literal hate-speech.”

It seems all you are trying to accomplish in this thread is to let assholes continue to ruin the experience for others by forcing the victims into silence. No, ban the assholes instead. Easy solution.