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by Fnoord 3138 days ago
> > 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?

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?

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> So the lack of that justifies graffiti in random threads until your demands are Let?

Nope but it is the inevitable outcome as we see here.

That doesn't justify anything except replies like this one [1]. This entire discussion is now hidden, as it should be.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15724284

Actually thinking back on it and going over your responses I'll admit I'm wrong. You appear to have many many more years dedicated to online forums than me and very most likely understand how to sustain a community better. With mentioning several communities I've never heard of.

I'll still stand my ground that the first reply that I replied to was a shit comment only wanting to deflect conversation. If it followed what you said here then the appropriate response is to ignore it and report.