The small town i grew up near is basically plastered in pride flags and every child matters ribbons all year round, which is obviously far from the norm, but is just an example that not all rural areas are inherently reactionary by default.
Yeah, i found the hostility between the two sides in that thread to be more confusing than anything. Each has its perks, and the experience in either area is not universal.
That's true, but its used disingenuously a lot to strawman people.
For example, believing the Falklands shouldn't be a British colony, doesn't also mean believing that everyone currently living there should be deported.
Gonna shamelessly plug my effortpost on this very topic from a while back (feels like its been more than 6 months tbh lol).
Now that we've reforked to Lemmy I would add a 4th main point: use the Block function amply! If someone or some comm consistently grinds your gears and hurts your enjoyment of the site, just save yourself the psychic damage and slam that Block button, that's what it's there for.
If we could just assume that everyone on this site is probably at least well meaning then I think we could have a much better culture around disagreements
I think this site might benefit from having a sort of "good faith" rule
I think we actually do have that already (although it seems like the Code of Conduct still hasn't been updated, and trawling through old /c/announcement threads definitely isn't the optimal way of finding rules).
The rules there should cover most of this, but I'm not sure how thoroughly they're enforced, which isn't the fault of the mods necessarily, they're not omnipresent and need to actually have people report stuff to them (and I'm not sure how many users actually regularly report stuff, I know for myself that I'd rather just skip over a thread or comment chain that's getting mean than read through the whole thing and try to figure out who to report). Also, as a non-American timezone haver I've noticed that I tend to miss all the drama, so maybe our mods are also disproportionately in other timezones and end up only being able to come in when things have already deteriorated?
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I think there was also some dismissal of everyone in the country as a racist yokel in that thread which is also pretty narrow minded and rude
no one covered themselves in glory there
The small town i grew up near is basically plastered in pride flags and every child matters ribbons all year round, which is obviously far from the norm, but is just an example that not all rural areas are inherently reactionary by default.
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All that thread did was make me go "cities are cool and fun to visit, but i am just not adapted to that environment for extended periods of time."
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Yeah, i found the hostility between the two sides in that thread to be more confusing than anything. Each has its perks, and the experience in either area is not universal.
There's a weird thing where some people go, "oh you believe X? Then you must support Y terrible thing." (See the Falkland struggle session)
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That's true, but its used disingenuously a lot to strawman people.
For example, believing the Falklands shouldn't be a British colony, doesn't also mean believing that everyone currently living there should be deported.
Gonna shamelessly plug my effortpost on this very topic from a while back (feels like its been more than 6 months tbh lol).
Now that we've reforked to Lemmy I would add a 4th main point: use the Block function amply! If someone or some comm consistently grinds your gears and hurts your enjoyment of the site, just save yourself the psychic damage and slam that Block button, that's what it's there for.
If we could just assume that everyone on this site is probably at least well meaning then I think we could have a much better culture around disagreements
I think we actually do have that already (although it seems like the Code of Conduct still hasn't been updated, and trawling through old /c/announcement threads definitely isn't the optimal way of finding rules).
The rules there should cover most of this, but I'm not sure how thoroughly they're enforced, which isn't the fault of the mods necessarily, they're not omnipresent and need to actually have people report stuff to them (and I'm not sure how many users actually regularly report stuff, I know for myself that I'd rather just skip over a thread or comment chain that's getting mean than read through the whole thing and try to figure out who to report). Also, as a non-American timezone haver I've noticed that I tend to miss all the drama, so maybe our mods are also disproportionately in other timezones and end up only being able to come in when things have already deteriorated?
Hexbear could always do what Lemmygrad does and put code of conduct on the site sidebar on the homepage.
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