I like to engage with people of differing opinions! Why don't others elsewhere?

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[–]SonterLord 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I'm being sincere when I say: why don't you create a board here explicitly encouraging (good faith) debate? Or convince like minded others to do so.

This is gunna sound shitty of me but I hate arguing with people because I suck at articulating my convictions.

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(good faith) debate

That just leads to biased bannings of anyone arguing in "bad faith", defined strictly as anyone the mods don't like.

[–]SonterLord 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I do agree that the meaning of 'good faith' is too ambiguous to maintain in any official capacity. r/AskTheDonald used to be OKAY but I'm not so sure anymore.

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It was used on the ukpolitics subreddit for a while. What it lead to was that when a user made a perfectly valid statement that they wholly believed, but one which happened to be unpopular, the mob would cry 'bad faith' because they just couldn't accept anyone could make such a comment in earnest, and they were so offended by it they thought they were being trolled. Because the mob were the majority they just report bombed anyone with a minority view for bad faith posting, and the mods wanting a quiet life just banned the single poster to placate them. It killed the debate. They rolled back on the rule eventually.