[bq]This decision will very likely not end any harassment any members have been facing. [/bq]
This is a fair point. What exactly stops the "brownie nutsees" from just following the artists who leave, and somehow are only leaving now after Atlantic article, due to [==~fascist harrassment~==] (any harrassment is, and has been, against the rules since the beginning)? If someone stops responding and the harrasser sees their profile wiped, it's really not that hard to check the other sites (or, because it's implied targetted harrassment, already know and use the other sites, making leaving Derpi into political statement* instead of escape from harrassment).
*Which is ironic, because this thread is about leaving Derpi as a way to make _exact opposite_ political statement.