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If the option was left in the preferences menu (roughly where the anti-kibitzer is kept) I expect a small minority (about one in ten posters) to actually flip the Crocker bit. I actually think the level of politeness expected towards people who do turn on Crocker's Rules will be more interesting: there is a mentality that translates "politeness required: 0" into "politeness required: arbitrarily large negative number" ("no need to be polite" -> "be extremely rude"), and I think there's a nonzero chance of that mentality being present on LW.
Yeah, I've thought of that. If such a feature were to be added, it would probably be good to try to preempt that effect (and other possible problems) with a "The proper use of Crocker's Rules" post, so people will at least be mindful of those pitfalls in advance.