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[–]medium_tomato 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I just realized you're the person that encouraged me to create a new sub with positive content. I'm trying to stick to that, so I hope you also stay and maybe in time this can become better. It feels like there's a total of 50 of us here, and 30 are the crazies.

People are leaving reddit in droves, so the best we can do is post some decent stuff here first.

Edit: spelling

[–]Prism 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

positive content

"Positive" is a subjective opinion that is entirely dependant on who's looking at your sub and what they perceive as being "positive". Positive ≠ truthful.

It feels like there's a total of 50 of us here, and 30 are the crazies.

No, you've just never been exposed to points of view that you're not used to hearing since reddit hides unpopular speech via the ridiculously broken "downvoting" system that promotes mob rule, and so seeing it everywhere all at once instead of nowhere at all makes it appear that way. That's precisely why reddit is the home of the radical left who enjoy silencing people rather than debating them, they also act this way in real life so it's only natural that they found their way to the most easily manipulated & broken website on the internet that most readily serves this purpose.

Just because somebody disagrees with you doesn't mean they aren't sound of mind, what a poor line of reasoning.

If you think somebody is wrong then you should either ignore them or prove them wrong and back your reasoning with sources (refer to the pyramid of debate); you don't get to hide peoples' opinions here just because you disagree with them, there's a reason we moved away from reddit.

There are a lot more than 50 people here by the way, though I'm sure you're aware of this and are just saying it for the sake of argument. We're currently experiencing the worst DDoS attack since the site's inception, many believe this is due to the rising popularity of the site and the fact that we're now being mentioned in the mainstream. Somehow I doubt that 30 random people shitposting on an obscure website would warrant such retaliation.

People are leaving people in droves

Anybody who doesn't support freedom of expression is in the wrong place and will leave on their own accord, so how exactly is this a bad thing?

The site's purpose isn't to garner an audience, it's supposed to serve as an open platform of ideas. Those are the words of magnora himself. You're either playing dumb for the sake of argument or you really just don't get what this place is about. Silencing people doesn't make them go away, it only invigorates and serves to them as an example of how they must be "on the money", even if they're completely wrong.

You need to stay on reddit if you can't handle unpopular opinions, the whole point of freedom of speech is to protect unpopular speech. That's why you're going to find unpopular speech on a website dedicated to this principle, believe it or not.

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Wow, Prism, that read like Hemingway, smooth.