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> Forums shouldn't be policing content Why not?

• COGlory 5y ago
  I'm not sure I agree with the parent that they shouldn't be policing content, but it's undeniable that doing so exacerbates echo chambers.
  • toofy 5y ago
    I can list *many* cases where echo chambers are not a bad thing at all. Of course this will depend on your definition of echo chamber, however, if any community doesn’t begin with “we hold certain things to be self-evident” then that community will be overrun with noise and off topic nonsense. It will be impossible to find any relevant signal. And anyone who doubts this only needs to look at completely hands off forums to see this. They may be fun occasionally, but these are hardly useful if you’re looking for some kind of information. Im not implying you’re doing this, but many people imply that anything other than “hands off” is an echo chamber, and honestly, this is just silly. that kind of definition of “echo chamber” is all but useless. echo chambers are hardly inherently bad.
  • rualca 5y ago
    > (...) but it's undeniable that doing so exacerbates echo chambers. No, not really. In fact, you got it exactly backwards. The problem was only made possible by these echo chambers. These conspiracy nuts create their subreddits and ban anyone who expresses any dissenting or even inconvenient information. Once these conspiracy nuts remove all reactionaries from the picture, they double down on craziness and create an environment in which everyone feeds off myths and fables repeated ad nauseum as self evident in spite of any lack of substance of bearing in reality. If these conspiracy loons weren't able to censor contrasting opinions and those calling them out on their bullshit, half these crazy rumours would not even go beyond the discussion.