06-28-2020, 10:40 PM
(06-27-2020, 04:36 PM)Dill Wrote: I don't think "smarmy posts" and "condescension" are big problems driving people away.
Well, the rep messages I get from numerous posters would indicate otherwise. No, I'm not going to out them, that's their story to tell and I don't care if you believe me or not.
Quote:Outright personal insults is still the main reason threads degenerate and get shut down. They drive people away from such threads. They're a lot easier to see than "condescension." And that could account for my "hypocrisy" with regards to Dino. If someone demanded I produce an example of a Dino personal attack, much less a series of them bold and frequent enough to drive someone from the list, I could not. I wonder if anyone else could.
Someone certainly could as he's been suspended from this sub forum numerous times for that exact behavior. Fred is probably the leader in suspensions for a poster who hasn't been outright banned. Odd that you seem to be unaware of this.
Quote:I can produce instances of "condescension" as referred to in 2 above. That is, people boxed in by the persons or principles they have chosen to defend. But that is a structural problem inherent to such positions. Until the list is turned into a "safe space" for posting only good things about candidates, I don't see that changing.
The only people demanding "safe spaces" are the OP and the like minded. I'd be fine with a free for all. The problem is too many people in this sub forum have proven they can't handle that. You don't see what you don't want to see. That's OK, but be aware that it's also well known.
