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Rule on civility? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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While the [email protected] community has always been a little feisty, the flood of Redditors has turned much of any contentious subject into pure mud slinging. Take the recent post "Ukraine war: Kyiv claims its first victories of counter-offensive". The discussion featured these insults:

cia and nafo freaks
I don’t think the person you’re responding to has the capacity to realize anything except their own delusions
hasn’t achieved reading comprehension
tankie
fascist
gargling Putin's cock
weasels
So I sincerely ask you to either become a better person or just stfu.
loonies
Russian dick train
willfully obtuse

And that's just half of the page. Seems like it's time to have at least some basic civility rules in place before this community is nothing but personal attacks.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is what the voting system is for .. upvoted comments become more visible. Downvoted comments disappear. The war inflames people in both sides .. yesterday a Russian missile killed 11 civilians. So it's understandable people will react like this. But I'd far prefer reading these kinds of comments than have some kind of behavior code. If they introduced that in a forum I'd be out very quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While it's understandable, that doesn't mean that it's productive. It also doesn't mean that people can't at least minimally restrain themselves.

[–] MercuryUprising 1 points 2 years ago

It also doesn't mean that a small group of bot accounts or smurfs or anything else can change the votes in their favor and change the tide of what people think is the zeitgeist.

I've already seen it here where upvoted comments become randomly heavily downvoted for stating something against China or russias policies, while whataboutisms are suddenly upvoted in exchange.