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TheDisreputableDog
Oct 13, 2005

fool of sound posted:

---Clickbait articles with misleading headlines
---lovely editorials written to drive negative social media engagement
---Posting articles as an embedded tweet with an attached hot take

Just like the question of splitting US Pol, the above issues are obvious symptoms of a deeper, underlying problem. Hot takes and bad tweets are being imported to fill the void of actual debate because D&D has become ideologically stale - all that stuff naturally self-regulates when there’s a surplus of people making substantive arguments in an environment that nurtures real discussion.

Earlier in the OP you used the term “enforcing better discourse”. In my opinion that’s the polar opposite of the mindset needed here. Objective, even handed enforcement of the rules yields a better space for discourse. Keep adding more band-aid rules and stepping on people for wanting something interesting to talk about is only going to drive people away.

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