When new users show up you should have existing users be as rude and inconsiderate as possible and grill them about their full name. Who is microbe? I don’t know, but apparently he or she wants a DNA sample from me before we are allowed to politely discuss politics.
How did you find this website?
(I ask in a genuine, polite, gentle manner. Good sir or madam, I do not intend to bully you with my question).
Thank you good sir or madam. Someone showed me a couple tweets and pointed me here.
People being rude to me on 2p2 and seeing others get dunked on too has helped me change my political views for the better.
Bullying works.
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I have been thinking a lot about this.
I think we should eliminate bans of any kind.
Use the ignore function. Keep activating it as often as needed.
If someone is truly a bad fit for the community, it’s not the poster and it’s not the content and it’s not the community.
It’s the language.
That’s right. No more bans. Instead, anyone who would be banned is instead sent to French BBV, where everything is exactly the same. Mais en francais.
The old Joe Rogan message board basically used a system like this, some people who were huge assholes would get banned but everyone else would just get contained to a subforum until they could show they’d improved their posting.
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That place is a toilet.
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Don’t worry, it got the 2+2 Politics forum treatment a couple years ago.
I think this forum is a much much better place to post than 2p2 politics was before the exile when it was more about dunking.
Also, we can’t avoid occasional drama about bannings or exiles or which annoying new posters are spawning big derails, but if it were always going on that would be bad.
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I’m just trying to express my disapproval of a ban on bans that will inevitably lead to spending time in toilet-like conditions.
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ftr, to date there has been exactly one account banned and it was suicide by donkey porn.
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May all our stars burn so bright at the end.
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I don’t remember the no donkey porn rule being voted on
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My thought was ggoreo could write a script that auto-translates (badly) everything in the main forum into French. These troublesome users exiled to FrenchBBV must then slow down to translate what they’re reading. And of course we require them to respond in French as well, so that they must be equally deliberate and thoughtful with their responses.
The loophole in this is if the poster already speaks fluent French, but as you all know, l’habit ne fait pas le moine!
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who was it?
Will (not the infamous one, the other guy).
I can’t remember. Was Will mad that there was too much moderation or too little?
My take is he was pissed at cuse not for too much moderation but for the way he was going about things. Same as I was when I quit, but I wasn’t clever enough to dream up the donkey porn option.
I was poking around the politics subreddit the other day for some dumb reason and it seemed more sane than I expected. Does anyone post there? Is it worth namedropping Unstuck over at reddit or would we just attract a bunch of Jordan Peterson bros?