I was kind of on board, but the sentence about a new player entering the subreddit and reading a lot of negativity has me a bit worried

I think that you are misinterpreting the post and I think that the reason you are misinterpreting it is because it could've been written in a better way and that you actually had room to interpret things this way, but I don't think that is the correct interpretation.

To me it is clear that they don't want to create a "save heaven" either. As I was reading it, the way that I understood it was that the problem is that a new player would read the criticism about the game, then they would open the threads to read the discussions about the criticism and then they would see that people are being vile and would be put away by it. Or they would try saying their opinion about it and they would also receive hostile messages and be discouraged from voicing further opinions about the game.

Obviously, this is not what Fenrils wrote, and he possibly could've worded that part much better, but I think that is the real problem: the way people approach certain topics isn't a way that is using logic or constructing an argument. People haven't been trying to have conversations with eachother, they, instead, have been trying to paint the other person as being so wrong so that other people piling on them is seen as ok (it never is).

If the game has problems they don't want to (and neither they should) censor the problems. They just want to get rid of the people that approach it from a very polarizing way. Like people that leave a one liner and have a -200 karma comment saying that something is shit