Is it just me, or are lots of mods just banning anyone with a dissenting opinion?
I like to be a bit contrarian, play devil’s advocate, stuff like that, so sometimes I know what I post isn’t going to jive with the community I’m posting in, but I think there’s value in that. It starts a discussion and it offers a different pov.
Maybe I’m wrong and stupid, and someone can reply and explain why. I think that would be a net benefit. But what happens instead is my post gets deleted and I get banned. :/
I genuinely think this is a real issue and it leads to echo chambers, but am curious to see what other ppl think? Am I just salty? :)
You’re not posting to play Devil’s advocate in a civil discussion. You’re trolling. You’re being disingenuous, at best. We can see your past post history.
I know you can see it, it’s no secret, but
- it’s missing to whom and to what I replied to
- lots of comments have been deleted, you can’t even see those afaik
In most cases I’d say I am not trolling nor being disingenuous. Maybe I did troll when I replied just “Orange man bad” to someone, but even then I was trying to create a bigger argument that Trump doesn’t work alone and the issue is much bigger than 1 bad guy - there’s the people around him, the party around him, etc. - and this is my genuine opinion, again, stupid or not. :/
Do you remember forum culture? Where, if you joined a forum and were a giant pain in the ass, they kicked you out?
Large, monolithic social media sites like Facebook and Reddit got away from some of that, just because they’re too big to police. But the fediverse isn’t. Not yet, anyway. Bad neighbours are defederated from, and bad actors are banned.
Don’t be a giant pain in the ass if you don’t want to be shown the door. Or go back to spaces that are too big to GAF about you.