not “go away”, but “find people who agree with them and hang out there instead”
I’m not sure what the difference supposed to be. If they hang out with someone else, and are happy there, and don’t bother you anymore, how is that “not going away”, and why is that not a good solution?
The problem seems to be not your scenario, but the one where they fail to find people who agree with them and hang out there.
ETA: reading Nornagest’s comment below, maybe you mean that they find others who agree with them, but instead of hanging out together somewhere else, they come back with those others and bother you as a group (or bother someone else). That’s a problem, but if these other similar-minded people are around to be found, I’m not sure if not telling them to go away will prevent them from finding one another and banding together.
Tl;dr of my point: telling people to go away should on balance make them go away more.
What I meant (but didn’t express well) was more like “they go find another group, which is composed of people who agree with them and can protect each other, and there are also some people around for some reason who don’t like all this creeping but don’t have the wherewithal to leave for some reason”.
Telling them to go away may well increase such congregations (I’m interested in hearing non-anecdotal evidence). But even assuming that happens, do you think the net amount of being-creeped-out increases as a result? Some people do get them to go away, after all.
I’m not sure what the difference supposed to be. If they hang out with someone else, and are happy there, and don’t bother you anymore, how is that “not going away”, and why is that not a good solution?
The problem seems to be not your scenario, but the one where they fail to find people who agree with them and hang out there.
ETA: reading Nornagest’s comment below, maybe you mean that they find others who agree with them, but instead of hanging out together somewhere else, they come back with those others and bother you as a group (or bother someone else). That’s a problem, but if these other similar-minded people are around to be found, I’m not sure if not telling them to go away will prevent them from finding one another and banding together.
Tl;dr of my point: telling people to go away should on balance make them go away more.
What I meant (but didn’t express well) was more like “they go find another group, which is composed of people who agree with them and can protect each other, and there are also some people around for some reason who don’t like all this creeping but don’t have the wherewithal to leave for some reason”.
Telling them to go away may well increase such congregations (I’m interested in hearing non-anecdotal evidence). But even assuming that happens, do you think the net amount of being-creeped-out increases as a result? Some people do get them to go away, after all.