Politics and Religion

[Dill]

(03-03-2021, 09:32 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: I'm assuming that most of the "bullying" that he claims happened was basically a Conservative that believes what Fox News told them and then parroted it here. After being repeatedly corrected, they were shocked and offended that people didn't see his/her statements as indisputable facts and said "screw this, I'm out of here." as they then went in search of an echo chamber to feel better about themselves and their views.

It's as if there are more Liberals and Independents than there are Republicans. Maybe having a "You either agree with me or you're against me" while not being flexible in the slightest isn't the best way to go about things. Or am I being a bully?

Not a bad guess, probably.

I think Dino and Hollo covered this well enough. But its hard to say for sure we are all talking about the same thing, since no one is providing links or actual quotes. 

The "clique" thing is kind of a red herring though. Could one say Arturo was just bullied off this thread because multiple people disagreed with him. But I don't say that.

I found this link to a spinoff thread, with some still good advice, as far as it goes.
http://thebengalsboard.com/Thread-I-think-this-is-a-good-idea?pid=879700&highlight=clique#pid879700

BmorePat87 Wrote: I'm not sure who the whole clique is, but some posters feed off of other posters. It's mutual and it causes threads to derail and the civility to crumble. It's not just one group. 
It starts with intentional trolling, though. Snark and shitty posts here and there are one thing, but when your whole purpose is to just troll then that causes issues. As soon as someone does, just stop responding to them. Don't take the bait. That's what they want and it feeds them. If enough people took this approach then we'd have less problems.