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Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Post by Fjolsvith »

panarky wrote: post #60
Fjolsvith wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This could also be described as being cliquish, or an echo chamber.

I've found Tildes to be welcoming to a wide variety of ideas, opinions and world views. We're hostile to trolls, saboteurs, personal attacks, self-promotion and repeated empty or trivial junk comments. If it's cliquish to discourage activity that makes social spaces miserable, then that's the kind of clique I'd like to belong to.

Personal attacks and derision of my point of view were what I experienced right before being called a troll and banned.

Its unfortunate that some social spaces are uncomfortable with divergent viewpoints.

Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Post by panarky »

Fjolsvith wrote: post #61
panarky wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've found Tildes to be welcoming to a wide variety of ideas, opinions and world views. We're hostile to trolls, saboteurs, personal attacks, self-promotion and repeated empty or trivial junk comments. If it's cliquish to discourage activity that makes social spaces miserable, then that's the kind of clique I'd like to belong to.

Personal attacks and derision of my point of view were what I experienced right before being called a troll and banned. Its unfortunate that some social spaces are uncomfortable with divergent viewpoints.

Sounds like Tildes is not the right community for you.

Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Post by Fjolsvith »

panarky wrote: post #63
Fjolsvith wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personal attacks and derision of my point of view were what I experienced right before being called a troll and banned. Its unfortunate that some social spaces are uncomfortable with divergent viewpoints.

Sounds like Tildes is not the right community for you.

Exactly. Not as wide of a variety of ideas, opinions and world views as you make it out to be.

Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Post by scrollaway »

Fjolsvith wrote: post #65
panarky wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like Tildes is not the right community for you.

Exactly. Not as wide of a variety of ideas, opinions and world views as you make it out to be.

Or maybe it is wide, and your opinions are just really out there (or you really were in fact an asshole.).

If everyone keeps calling you out, it's possible the problem isn't with everyone. I'm not saying that's always the case, I'm just pointing out the odds aren't in your favour.

Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

#69

Post by bananamerica »

petecox wrote: post #57

Top discussion currently is on Hitler. No thanks, I'll give it a miss.

Have you actually read it?

Stories about killing Hitler and saving millions of lives are a staple of science fiction, and an interesting way to reason about time travel.

I created that thread as a creative exercise for others to partake in good, light-hearted fun. Despite the subject, there were absolutely no cases of misbehavior. That's what you get when you're in a heavily moderated community that takes being nice to each other very seriously.

Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

#70

Post by bananamerica »

bartread wrote: post #39

This is great: fast, interesting content, comments, voting, but... I can't do anything until I get an invite. Tedious. This invite only model sucks an 18-metre radius dog anus. We've seen it far too many times before. It's really boring and overdone and needs to die. Seriously, just let us in. And I know what you're thinking, "Wow, this comment is super-obnoxious and we don't want this kind of person in here", but ch…

Tildes is a heavily moderated community with strict guidelines. Right now it doesn't have the advanced moderation tools required to accommodate an unlimited number of people while still enforcing quality content and civil interactions.

Anyway, you haven't got an invite yet, send an email to mrbig033@protonmail.com asking for invite code. Please include your Hacker News username in the message. We'll be happy to have you!

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