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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Thursday June 10 2021, @05:15PM (1 child)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday June 10 2021, @05:15PM (#1143955)

    5) With the ejection of realDonaldTrump, the departure of TMB and maybe now Hemocyanin, gratuitous upvotes of Azuma's ad-hominems and anyone else parroting the current Democrat party line, corresponding downvotes to opposing ideas to hide them from default view and placing their authors in risk of an IP ban - I have no desire to volunteer for a site that is in danger of becoming a "safe space" for neo-Communists.

    Ditto. When half of most threads are people shouting insults at each other (sometimes not even related to the topic at hand), it doesn't encourage me that the site is worthy of my effort.

    It used to be a lot easier to have a civilized conversation around here.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by kazzie on Monday June 14 2021, @02:25PM

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 14 2021, @02:25PM (#1145067)

    A lot of the arguing seems to be based on politics for a country other than my own, so it's a little easier for me to be indifferent or clueless about it. And some of it serves to remind me that there are a lot of different perspectives and viewpoints out there; that's the sort of broad sampling that you don't get on bubble-oriented social media.

    But yeah, it is a pian to have to scroll past loads of un-related arguement to find any discussion of TFA.