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.
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.
