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Online Party Discipline? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello comrades, I read a comment on a post either on lemmygrad or hexbear talking about how most discourse happening was of poor quality and indicative of a lack of genuine leftist groups in the imperial core. Basically if there were patty's with some teeth they would enforce party discipline and education and that would lead to higher quality discourse online.

I also read some of Lenins2ndcat's comments which were very patient when they were interacting with users from other communities.

Is there anyway to work on like, an online party discipline? Or like having users who are very good at discussing with libs have a more concerted approach to their interactions? It really seems that much of us are often too aggressive and meme-y and as fun as that is it really isn't productive.

I get that this isn't how praxis or anything happens, it seems more like the way we engage could be more productive and fruitful in the long term and considerations like this might go a long way.

TL;DR Planned economy but for memeposting

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was almost agreeing with you until this one. If you think this is an example of "good discussion" you might want to go try it out with the libs over there to see how effective it is. I can assure you you'll be met with more "aggressive" responses.

Certainly those who have patience and enjoy kindly educating others should be encouraged to do so and maybe they'll even convince some. But at the end of the day this is an internet forum for internet randos, not a political party, and we should not police other users from shitposting and poking fun at obvious wreckers and trolls except when they go overboard or break rules. If you want to go talk with others, go for it. There's even [email protected] if you want to help organise how to properly communicate there and share experiences. But don't come here with your bloated pseudoscientifc "examinations" like you're writing a contrapoints script and expect to be taken seriously.

And the irony of wanting good discourse and ending with:

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk