That is great. Intelligent reasonable adults can agree to disagree politely about some hot button issue and the resulting discussion could still be good. Respe

That is great. Intelligent reasonable adults can agree to disagree politely about some hot button issue and the resulting discussion could still be good. Respectfully dang, I think this particular group is really different for two reasons: - Their philosophies stretch without limits to virtually all subjects and hence every discussion on the site. - The bundle of rhetorical tactics and behaviors they've adopted to win at all costs (gaslighting, name calling, piling on, upvote rings, downvote rings, strategic flagging abuse) Recent thread about "Girl Ramen" in Japan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39574330 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39574330 (flagged) Poster auntywundrkind eagerly runs with it: "..every year before, where ramen eating was highly inaccessible & sexist. The article covers how difficult it's been & why this thing that started in 2015 is important, which you seem to scoff at. You know it's 2024 when someone will show up & grumble about wokeness." ^ Note, nobody else mentioned wokeness. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jauntywundrkind https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jauntywundrkind created: 8 months ago karma: 1583 about: "This site is a monster. "The crazy-shit capitalist-prick nega-voices are rabidly in control and will rabidly rate limit the shit out of anyone saying good progressive hopeful things. The mods savage any pushback or hopeful voices. Tech should be a place for positivity & health & growth. It should a place for what if. The endless reign of the negative voices is hell. Clipping the good people without any regard endlessly is hell. This site is hell.. There is no accountability for what is silenced here, and what is silenced here is the push for the good, the push for the hopeful." How do we resist this hell? How do we start honest good? Fuck negativity, fuck this hell, fuck these people. Do good anyways, even if these trashweasel crapheels keep rate limiting you for daring to speak for good & hope." ^ I know better than to engage with such a user. The ramen thread is flagged and gone now because of people like that. That wasn't an interesting one so no great loss but many threads and discussions are ruined with very little effort by a small number of such users. They don't need to outright dominate anything to trash the website. And your moderation hasn't caught him out in the 8 months this individual has been going wild. That's all. On HackerNews now if people don't buy into the premise that Ramen is sexist the thread is removed. That's the reality now. So how on earth could we discuss the controversial goings on in Google? We can't. You got boxed in as a mod, reconsider.