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In my experience, if someone is going to be contrarian or pivot the topic to something else or move a conversation from primarily non-political into political,
by unethical_ban 12d ago
In my experience, if someone is going to be contrarian or pivot the topic to something else or move a conversation from primarily non-political into political, they have the burden of explaining the connection to the main topic and to be exceedingly diplomatic. One-liners that go against the grain or that will generate a lot of adversarial back-and-forth get warned.
- 0xbadcafebee 12d agoWhich is a bit crazy, isn't it? Like a micromanager gone mad. They claim it's a community but it feels more like one person's plaything
- unethical_ban 11d agoI really think it's a good thing. I think it balances the ability to allow dissent and debate while helping ensure the comment isn't flamebait. Without slashdot-style metamoderation it's the only way to keep trolls at bay. I've crossed the mods here once or twice in heated arguments, and it's almost always been a reasonable request from them to clean up my argument. Though I was unreasonably banned on my original account about 14 years ago (hence the username created in angry haste).