It feels like people are a lot nicer here than on Twitter and Reddit, and even when people disagree, it’s generally civil and not an all-out flame war. Also, there’s no algorithm promoting outrage all the time.
For me, the anticipation of toxicity was a huge deterrent for me ever participating in real discussions, but here I feel like I can be myself.
I think it’s healthier this way.
Yes. People aren’t just saying stupid jokes.
I find the quality of content to be way higher. People aren’t desperately trying to stand out or fit in with a crowd.
You’re right about the mods, though. All it takes is a large number of reports and they will usually come up with a reason to reprimand you, even if you aren’t breaking any rules.
This, of course, has been and will continue to be abused to drown out people with dissenting opinions.
I agree, for the most part. But I already have noted a couple instances of the kind of behavior I expected to see on Reddit.
There’s always, always going to be an insufferable group of people who spends their aimless lives just shitting all over everything.
Disagree. I’ve already seen extremely heated discussions.
I’d often type out a comment on the other site and the. I’d decide not to post it purely because I knew that I’d be flamed for daring to have an opinion of my own.
I disagreed with someone once (politely) over something extremely minor and got told to go die in a fire. So why would I post just to get shit like that?
Here though things do seem nicer and I really hope things stay that way. My fear is that with any large number of people you’re going to get those arse-hats who ruin it for others, but maybe they’ll stay on Reddit where they can act like wankers together.
