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[–]Cornfed 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Couldn't even this be seen as caving to the sniveling multitudes?

[–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Do you have a better solution? Suppose someone made a spam sub and invited all spammers to post there. How should this be handled?

[–]Cornfed 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Ideally there would be maximal expression of ideas so expressing ideas of whatever kind would be allowed whereas that which impeded the expression of ideas - spam, unpleasant images etc. - would not. Probably the only way to enforce this would be to have a sensible code of conduct and sensible global mods enforcing it. I thought you disapproved of downvoting and shadowbanning. Your suggestion would achieve those things based of the initial reaction of lamestream morons to anything that challenges their silly and boring worldview. Probably the better the ideas the more offensive the morons would find them. I would have thought the purpose was to have all ideas on a level playing field so that the best ideas could win in the end.

[–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

If a site is designed for non-morons, it will have almost no users, just like this sub. So I want to address the needs of both morons and non-morons. I would never use MOST, I would just use SUBSCRIBED and ALL. But MOST is needed for the morons who are too lazy to mute subs and are easily offended. Is there really any point to subjecting morons to anything that challenges their silly and boring worldview? I don't see any.

Also, I am reluctant to establish a code of conduct that can't be trivially defined and judged. A non-trivial code of conduct would result in endless debates about how the site should be run.

[–]Cornfed 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

If there is going to be a thumb on the scale in favour of the establishment like with the rest of the Internet then there is arguably no point in troubling yourself. Some of the less moronic morons may see reason if exposed to it for long enough. Things seemed to be working out that way on social media before the purge of 17, which is why the purge happened.