Politics would have benefited from the SE practice of listing bans (do they still update their list)?
I also like this rule from SE:
Mild trolling is ok, the whole lot of us are trolls. But there’s a line, and people who cross it will be asked to cease. None of us want to ban anyone, so let’s all behave like adult trolls.
I’ve likened politics to sports fandom and different parties and ideologies and POVs as our “teams”. We can be very tribal about our political teams just as we are about our sports teams and very negative towards opposing teams. The people who don’t want things to work that way just don’t understand the reality of our psychology. This isn’t ever going to be a polite debating society. Let’s not craft rules based on the naïve idea that it can be. That’s why the US Senate is the way it is.
Sure, let’s eject Team White Nationalist Racist from the league, but once you’re in, there should be some consistency about how the rules are applied. There are a lot of bad POVs that should have the same freedom to be represented without crossing those lines.
Lol at this edit. Sorry that when you said “Fly is the second worst poster I’ve encountered in 25 years online” I didn’t read it as “Fly is the second worst person I have had direct arguments with, ranked by how mean they were to me personally. I do not include posts I have read or should have read in this ranking.”
You got insulted online as a grown ass man. This is literally the same stuff we laugh at conservatives for every day on here!