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Echo chambers of hate in After Hours.

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    #212
    blanch152
    Registered Users Posts: 27,912 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    Very hard to moderate what you're referring to, as unless users get personally abusive towards you, mods would just be accused of stifling debate should they intervene. No harm reporting any needless badgering or ganghanded strawmanning though, as I have seen both get addressed (on-thread) down the years.

    Also, on a forum where certain opinions tend to be held by 95% or so of a userbase, and you're expressing an opinion held roughly by 5% or so, you will undoubtedly have your work cut out for you and will need, sadly, to be a little more thick skinned in how you approach such threads, given that your posts will invariably undergo a level of scrutiny and semanticism which the other side of the debate won't have to endure.

    Also, many confuse back slaps and group think for being right thinking too and so whenever you're expressing a minority held view, no matter how correct you are, sneering is something you will have to contend with. Even back in the days when they argued over whether or not the world was flat, you can be damn sure those who were saying it was round got very very few thanks on Internet discussion forums.

    That is all very well in principle but it doesn't work out so well in practice.

    If someone holds a minority (5%) Boards viewpoint especially on a political subject, they will be subject to needless badgering and ganghanded strawmanning, it is not always that easy to remain thick skinned. Protection from the mods will be slow in coming, if it comes at all. Furthermore, you will be reporting quite a number of posts, and you may be seen as a nuisance as well from that point of view. All in all, you will be some symbol of restraint if you don't respond. Once you do, you are subject to multiple reports and you become the problem.

    Inevitably that results in driving minority viewpoints off boards.


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    #213
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    blanch152 wrote: »
    ... it is not always that easy to remain thick skinned.

    If I came across as suggesting it was, it was unintended, as I fully appreciate it's not.


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