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[–]soundsituation 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I like ovarit but a lot of people there are unbendingly hung on up right vs left. Take this for the personal intuition that it is, but on a positive note I've noticed a shift away from that type of thinking lately, at least among the userbase. Ovarit is still nowhere near as pluralistic as saidit but I've gotten the impression lately that things are trending in that direction. So this is disappointing, and perhaps a sign that certain mods are out of touch.

[–]WrongToy[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They did allow an unarchived link post from federalist, so who knows where they are. It's not rhetorical, it's that it's very difficult to know where everyone is with the nested subs with their own rules and then the overarching rule.

I navigated the reddit gc for five years until it got shut down, but at least you knew where the minefields were. At least you knew you were reaching an audience.

[–]WildApples 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think the down vote buttons facilitate groupthink. I like that SaidIt does not have them.

[–]soundsituation 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same and same. The downvote button also makes a forum more vulnerable to narrative manipulation from bots and shills; not a monumental issue for ovarit right now due to their invite system, but not a nonexistent one either.