I think a key problem here is that the community is almost completely grassroots, with no central power (i.e. Nintendo) that can set guidelines and rules, and enforce punishments for people that act out of line. The smash community has long relied on people that they have viewed as trustworthy, be it pros, commentators or content creators to act as leaders. But the revelations from last year has shown that many of those leaders were terrible people that perpetuated a toxic environment. People in the smash community get away with stuff because for the longest time, the community and their leaders, comprised mostly of men, let them get away with it. With Nintendo entirely unwilling to involve themselves with the competitive community beyond token acknowledgement/advertising, its up to the people to form some sort of central committee, similar to the old COC board. The community must also collectively decide to follow the rules that such a board defines and take it seriously.
