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Answering this question is tricky because any answer is essentially inviting trolling. This community has both extremely technical people as well as a variety o
by tedivm 5y ago
Answering this question is tricky because any answer is essentially inviting trolling. This community has both extremely technical people as well as a variety of people who basically live on 4chan (and there is quite an overlap between the two) so things can get dicey in that regard.
Just some hivemind topics-
* Free Speech. This community tends to be extremist about this, which in turn means anything that can be construed as limiting free speech will, somewhat ironically, not result in a productive conversation.
* Corporate Libertarianism. This community also tends to be extremely pro-corporate, and there's a lot of "if you don't like it work somewhere else". That being said I've seen some push back against this lately.
* Meritocracy. If you challenge the idea that silicon valley is a meritocracy people seem to get really upset.
I would definitely say that there are reddit communities that are worse, and some that are better.
- KronisLV 5y agoThank you for your input! While the SV bit probably isn't relevant to any of the topics that i might touch upon, I'll keep that in mind. That said, in regards to freedom of speech, i feel like some of Bryan Lunduke's (just as an example) arguments wouldn't necessarily invite hostility, despite their delicateness - such as the idea of de-anonymizing the internet and what implications that could have and what it'd look like. Of course, it might invite prolonged discussions with no clear conclusion, because there are just societally complex topics with layered tradeoffs where no one can definitively cover all of them, but in my eyes that's not necessarily bad, as long as everyone remains civil. I know I've certainly been wrong about a lot of things, though thankfully people so far have corrected me and let me better myself.