I actually feel pretty safe disagreeing with the majority opinion or users on here without it turning into a whole thing. Usually people stay respectful. I get that it can be different for things that touches on people's core values, like veganism, but for most smaller stuff it's fine.
It's much better than mainstream sites where disagreeing with the popular opinion will just get you a bunch of downvotes and the same snarky non-reply from 10 different people.
It's kinda mixed bag. Sometimes you get some small disagreements that don't turn into much of a discussion but are rather a small moment of learning, and there's nothing wrong with that...in fact I think that sort of thing should be encouraged. It's just not very engaging for the rest of the site. It's kind of that struggle between engaging content (which is often bad content) and good content which is often not that engaging in a "post lots" kinda way.
Yeah, it's definitely not perfect. I just avoid the bigger discussion that brings in hundreds of comments over multiple threads because of how negative it gets, which is a shame, because I'm sure there's something to learn there. There's some users who get needlessly combative over smaller stuff as well, so I try to remember I can just disengage if things get uncomfortable.
I actually feel pretty safe disagreeing with the majority opinion or users on here without it turning into a whole thing. Usually people stay respectful. I get that it can be different for things that touches on people's core values, like veganism, but for most smaller stuff it's fine.
It's much better than mainstream sites where disagreeing with the popular opinion will just get you a bunch of downvotes and the same snarky non-reply from 10 different people.
It's kinda mixed bag. Sometimes you get some small disagreements that don't turn into much of a discussion but are rather a small moment of learning, and there's nothing wrong with that...in fact I think that sort of thing should be encouraged. It's just not very engaging for the rest of the site. It's kind of that struggle between engaging content (which is often bad content) and good content which is often not that engaging in a "post lots" kinda way.
Yeah, it's definitely not perfect. I just avoid the bigger discussion that brings in hundreds of comments over multiple threads because of how negative it gets, which is a shame, because I'm sure there's something to learn there. There's some users who get needlessly combative over smaller stuff as well, so I try to remember I can just disengage if things get uncomfortable.