This reminds me of ChangeMyView aka ChangeAView aka...Ceasefire https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19591713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19591713 Es

This reminds me of ChangeMyView aka ChangeAView aka...Ceasefire https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19591713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19591713 Essentially a reddit community about making compelling arguments in the hopes of changing someone's viewpoint. I never followed it closely, but from what I remember, the original moderators were worried that Reddit's moderation policies became too draconian whilst simultaneously selectively enforced it AND they made the community moderators bare the brunt of it. Reddit didn't do enough to combat brigading, nor offered a reasonable solution to the kinds of bans redditors were getting. Eventually they decided to break off from the platform, but their community was too small and the rebranding hurt them in trying to maintain a userbase. They couldn't monetize it and it died. The current version of the sub that remained on reddit is very ban happy with any semi-controversial viewpoint or anything within the realm of 'wrongthink' getting your thread locked. There's also virtually no mention of what happened. I think they were worried about losing the sub to a dedicated group of people who viewed it as a political indoctrination tool, allowing only a certain set of viewpoints... which ended up being true.