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It has been a little while now that this fledgling community has been around and it remains one of my favorite stories about communities. A splinter of a much larger community took it upon themselves to challenge the rest and make a move to a new home. Shedding the shackles that were being placed on them was a bold move, but one that has been fantastic.
The community here is great, but here is my question. Overall, we are amazingly tolerant of others, of the choices they make, and of their beliefs. I would then be curious, if we are such a tolerant group, how do we address intolerance in our ranks? I recently came across what I can only say filled me with pity and sadness. I find it saddening that in this day and age, and especially in this group, there are still such hate-filled people.
But this poses a question: how does a group that is tolerant deal with intolerance within it's ranks? Does our acceptance of others extend to accepting someone that has thoughts and beliefs which are far from the norm within this community, or is there a limit placed on how far from our own values a member of the community may be?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 14 2014, @01:23AM
I was banned, but I trolled there for many years, saying way worse than what I said here. However, I often had excellent karma and frequently pulled +4 and +5 comments right up until the moment when they banned me. They even finally published one of my submissions in spite of years of trolling. I had been trolling Slashdot professionally logged in under that username since around 2008, and was not actually banned until 2012-ish, and the funny part was that I had mellowed considerably well before I was banned.
The ban was probably not a result of the community -- many people enjoyed and modded up my trolls as well as the majority of my comments, which were serious.
The ban was most likely was due to the increasing influence of advertisers, and having people like me around would be very bad for an entity looking to get bought-out.
You know how I found this place? I posted an anonymous troll in Slashdot and somebody replied anonymously with a link to Soylent news, inviting me to join! But, it seems that I'm not part of certain individuals' visions of their circlejerk utopia, hence this needless Streisanding of a tasteless joke to the front page and this rancorous debate.