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by thealfreds
3138 days ago
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> You're not demonstrating how or why the solutions I have offered are not applicable. Your solution was that I write a script to blacklist certain words? Is that really a viable solution vs a product implementation? > Don't make it appear that your apathy regarding politics should be the status quo. And nowhere in this discussion was I against the discussion of politics just that this immediate and visceral reaction to wanting to discuss a topic is my issue here. If we had a meta forum as mentioned above I would love for discussions like this to be moved in that direction but we are where we are because the lack of structure. |
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Yes, that was one of my solutions. Only one human being has to write such a simple script, and share it for the rest of the world. The other solutions I provided require manual labour. It could also easily be implemented in the apps which use the API (f.e. I use Yarn).
> And nowhere in this discussion was I against the discussion of politics just that this immediate and visceral reaction to wanting to discuss a topic is my issue here.
Because it is offtopic, just like rants about quantum mechanics would easily be or become offtopic in a thread about Android security. We wouldn't accept that; why would be find rants about politics being on the website acceptable? The intolerance fundamentally starts when people go offtopic complaining about the substance of the topic which is disrespectful to those who do care about the topic. It does not need to be this way, if you just moved on, filtered, upvoted, read, and participated in what you find interesting. That's a way to positively reinforce instead of negatively.
> If we had a meta forum as mentioned above I would love for discussions like this to be moved in that direction but we are where we are because the lack of structure.
So the lack of that justifies graffiti in random threads until your demands are met?