> .. and this is the sort of hostility one attracts whenever one asks for transparency: the mask drops and the fangs come out.
Let me get this straight: you asking me to rationalize other people's actions is "transparency", but my asking you to explain your (in)action is hostility? It doesn't sound like you are contributing in good faith. Have a great day.
It's been my experience that people complaining about community moderation are never arguing in good faith.
The bad actors have gotten incredibly adept at dragging a forum down into hell. Either they turn a group into one that serves their ideology, or they make the group unusable for its original members.
Increasingly so. There's a terrible, almost schizophrenic feeling that comes with having to wonder if the person you are talking to is real. It seems obviously the case on some platforms and scary to wonder about on platforms like this and Reddit.
"Good" as in ~fun to think about" (I agree!), or more like "is an accurate description of what is going on here with my comment" (in this case at least, that would be inaccurate)?
What is happening in this thread is rather interesting though, don't you think? And this same sort of thing is happening all over the world right now, as we speak, nudging humanity toward who knows what kind of suboptimal, undesired outcomes.
