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Posts should (almost) never be locked. (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 3 months ago by weeeeum to c/unpopularopinion

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I think that if an outright war is raging in the comments, let it run it's course. All parties are willing participants, free to disengage at any moment.

The exceptions should be when illegal content is being shared or illegal activity is occurring (CP, doxxing, etc).

It's always frustrating when a juicy argument gets locked because it's "unproductive". I was having a great time watching it unfold, both sides hurling both creative and uncreative insults, oblivious to how low they are sinking to. It's great!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I think this goes to the core issue of lemmy moderation. You have to vote with your feet.

When some of my messages were removed from beehaw for being "unproductive"... I thought about it, decided they were right for moderating their community the way they wanted, but I was not required to participate especially if my participation would get removed, so I have since blocked every community that moderator had power over. Unfortunately it was one of the beehaw founders, which basically means I've blocked the entirety of beehaw.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

You're not missing anything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Conversely, I've found the beehaw communities to be a lot more open to actually discussing things as a result, so I've subscribed to a bunch of them.

This is actually a feature, and not a bug. Federated networks are perfect for this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Agreed. It is a feature