Are you tired of going into controversial threads and having people not discuss things, circlejerking, or using emotional responses in place of logic? Us too.
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I always find starting a conversation is hard without an ice breaker. Not necessarily something cheesy, but perhaps let's talk about what general discussion forums already exist and what we like about them. There was often genuinely fun and interesting chat at AskReddit, "would you rather"is a good starter, and maybe we could have a "philosophy Friday" to get into the weeds on deeper topics?
Alternatively we could discuss why "forums" annoys me. It should be "fora", dammit!
Good luck, people are filthy creeps. You're going to find out that out soon enough. Nobody wants honest and fair discourse, the entire reason people use sites like this is to find excuses to shit all over other people.
Maybe some, certainly. Not all people though. Never all.
You're one to talk, I'm having to look through your comments today, half of them seemingly are severe rule violations.
I only spew venom at those who attack me first. And when I'm attacked, I always give all the hate I can to the person in question.
Someone disagreeing with you isn't attacking you.
EXACTLY. That's the point I've been making for decades now. But people won't just simply disagree. They throw in nasty, invective disparaging words and insinuate that you or I must be morons because our views differ from theirs.
When someone calls me names just because I've expressed a view they don't like, you better believe I'm going to rain down on them like a ton of bricks. You can disagree with someone in a civilized manner -- but call me names and you're going damn well live to regret it.
I agree, but if someone insults you on c/politics you can just report the comment and we will remove it, and after enough strike ban them. Rather than you going from 1 to 100 and getting yourself banned.
I mentioned it elsewhere, but it seems like over the last 20 years or so the internet has become a lot more intolerant of even discussing how someone could approach an opposing viewpoint. This is how Echo Chambers were built and came about in the first place and I feel it's made a lot of people much more thin-skinned.
I hope this community will fix all that at least in this one tiny corner.