To be fair, I don't think there's any use in trying to do good PR for a suicide discussion forum. My philosophy is that if a user isn't breaking any rules, laws, or causing too much disruption, then it is better just to leave them alone. I don't like FC and her very AI-like mannerisms, but I don't think banning them without them breaking any rules is a good move to take on principle.
I agree for the most part, but I guess I don't see FC being banned is a "good PR" move, but rather not letting this single user dominate the conversation and voice of the website. It would be nice if the discussion about the forum was rather about the people who ran it, not about this user's weird postings.
Now, I'm not saying
every topic about the website is
solely surrounded around FC - This thread is a good example of it not being like that - But that user being mentioned as often as they have been is a highly uncomfortable amount to me.
When I think of Kiwifarms, I think of Null. When I think about Facebook, I think about Mark Zuckerberg. When I think about SS, I think about FC.
At some point, I think the community's input has to be valuable to some degree. If the conversation around this user is constantly being brought up, such as "They should be banned" or "I don't like their posts", then maybe it should be consdiered beyond the point of "Did they break Y rule or not".
I'm obviously for free speech; I mean, I'm here. I'm also Pro-SS (even a user there). Overall, I agree with the concept of minimally banning users. But, I don't know. I would NOT let some random user have control of my website like that, especially when they're being used as an example of the "worse" of the website.