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I've noticed a trickle of folks whose gimmick is vacuous or shallow questions - not even hostile JAQ-ing off, but just a stream of simple questions or confused naïveté - in order to either get a rise out of thread regulars, or to crowd out headline-driven thread interest when the news cycle is embarrassing to their favourite authoritarians (the contrived ignorance can be readily detected by clicking Post History and observing the posts in the other forum) So without naming names, I'd like to specifically praise the recent mod activity to call out and enforce threadbans for this, which I feel has improved the D&D China thread noticeably ronya fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Oct 29, 2022 |
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as a occasional lurker in the non-regional threads, my hot take is: just explicitly partition the problem threads by ideology already. It's already de facto the case the Girondins and Montagnards didn't work out their differences three centuries ago; dying debate subforum sure as hell isn't going to find the solution today most of the interesting posts are people who know the subject matter (be it through personal experience, technical expertise, or the simple patience to sit down and read about the subject for an hour) setting it out for people who don't, not liberals and leftists sniping at each other tediously. There is no fruitful exchange of thoughts without at least some shared assumptions on how the world works the regional threads are less subject to this problem because the disengaged are also typically disinterested, but US politics threads could really benefit from this
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Oct 30, 2022 05:49
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some plague rats posted:What? I don't get this. You're mad that people are asking questions? Not JAQing off, which is illegal, but asking questions? Why is that something that riles up the thread regulars? disparity of effort - e.g., asking questions that would require explaining a lot of basics, when clicking on your post history shows that you have some domain knowledge and formed opinions already it's a way to get around the "make serious arguments" rule: ask unserious questions
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Oct 30, 2022 06:14
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