We should try to keep this instance as a Free Speech destination, rather than yet another island controlled by the thought police.
Could we please set some rules for defederation? I’d like to suggest these two:
- Is it spam?
- Is it illegal?
If either is yes, then go ahead and ban it, otherwise allow free discussion and don’t get upset that some people think differently than yourself.
If you don’t want to have the discussion again, just don’t. It’s 100% okay for a user to post a thread and keep the discussion going. It has no effect on you if you opt out.
It’s very weird to criticize fellow users for having discussions.
And this topic will never, ever go away. It’s a permanent fixture of federation.
You may have forgotten which c/ you’re in. The agora isn’t for random discussions.
While there’s going to be some repeat subjects, at the time I originally commented, it had just been brought up on this c/ maybe a day before. Which means that this post (at that time) was a duplicate that would split the discussion. Now, it turns out that the previous post had been deleted but the poster, and (had you scrolled down a bit) a mod had stated that they were going to link to it, but this would be the thread for that discussion since it was gone, and I expressed a lack of objection at that point.
The objection, when it was made, was purely because of the nature of this c/. You can’t clog up an instance functional c/ with repeats of a matter because that makes it impossible to have a cohesive discussion. If you have to bounce between multiple threads, the debate gets both unwieldy, and easy to lose track of.
But, even is it was a regular c/, a repeat of a subject every day is still excessive.
The ongoing activity in these discussions shows that it’s not over. You just want people who disagree to stop voicing their disagreement.
