After signing up for reddit 10yrs ago solely for conspiracy... This is what made them finally decide they needed to make up a reason to get rid of me... too much truth (subject was brainwashing society, mostly around the abortion controversy)

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[–]Alienhunter 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Nah man it's the nature of the internet. You can have free speech and have the unsavory elements that go with it, or you can sterilize the discussion of the unsavory elements but lose the ability to actually say what you want.

Most people are fine with banning the overt racists or trolls, but it's all a matter of subjective enforcement. First it starts out by banning the more extreme ones, but it slowly becomes more and more censorious. Always happens with the internet.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

IMO, all those top-down and unsavory problems can be resolved if we let the community work it out.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Generally speaking yes, with small communities at least. When communities get larger it tends to require more moderation simply because you'll risk more disruptive posting that makes the forum unusable.

I think the problem is most people can't really handle the difference between, disruptive posting vs simply posts they don't like. Posts can be generally offensive but not actually be disruptive or malicious. As sometimes you do indeed need to offend in order to even have a discussion. But many people can't handle dealing with content that is offensive to them.

In general, online or otherwise, the way to deal with disruptive posting is to simply ignore it and not give attention. In smaller situations this is very effective as it gets the disruptive person going to seek their reactions elsewhere. But some people will not take that advice and will react to it, and the larger the group the more of those.people.there will be.