The prominent user who left recently made me realize that while this place is a lot less full of bigotry than reddit, that is a low fucking bar.
What are concrete steps users and mods can take to make this a more welcoming space? I'm assuming the majority of the bigotry is coming from inside the house, bar the occasional raid.
Banning shitstains is good and all, but that is only a part of community management. How do we proactively create a better user culture here? How do we better establish norms of behavior?
this kind of bad faith concern trolling, for one
i do have a general sense of the issues here that doesn’t fully align with op but that doesn’t mean i act in bad faith. i literally do not know what they’re talking about. i deplore any and all forms of bigotry and i’m fully committed to fighting them. but i need to know what it is rather that some vague general gesturing at unpopular posts. if you think my post itself is “bigotry” then well of course i’m not going to fight myself because i know i meant nothing of the sort? it’s a sensible enough question and legitimate confusion getting a pretty hostile reception
sorry, there's just so much bad faith "whatabout" going around this morning and people constantly asking for evidence and then moving the goalposts when you give it. guess i fell into the trap of being hostile. it really is exhausting around here, though. gonna log off and go grill. like legit, sorry for taking your post as such.
it’s ok, i do position myself in a way that i know invites strong disagreements sometimes. but that’s definitely something i would prefer to talk about rather than just suspecting it’s actually what op means (because i will continue to have big disagreements on how to handle this stuff and i hope it doesn’t end up with a ban and seriously i’d much rather it wasn’t a source of discomfort for anyone)