ok but when someone says "Hollywood is too woke these days" or "Stop pushing your woke agenda on my children!" it's not exactly a mystery as to what they really mean.
I think in this case the best scenario would be to screenshot and post it to the_dunk_tank so we can point and laugh at them. We really should cool it with jumping into other instances' meta posts, anyway, even if they deserve it. We aren't going to change their minds; even if we only say nice things to them they'll just make something up. Let them stew in their own reactionary filth.
I was extremely polite in that lemm.ee thread, admitted we could stand to tone it down a bit, even called out a rude post from one of our own, and I only got hostility from them in response. There's literally nothing we can do to not be called wreckers
It was an extremely bigoted, vulgar, personal attack on an admin in his own thread about why Hexbear deserves a second chance.
Sure, no arguments there.
An utterly vile statement like that followed by your soft "time and place" non-rebuke does not deserve any benefit of the doubt so yes, I will absolutely jump to the obvious interpretation.
Okay, but I've already clarified that I didn't agree with what he said, and all I was trying to say was "be nice." You obviously want less needless hostility from Hexbear users towards other instances, and I want that, too. Please afford us the same respect.
Especially in a thread about continued unacceptable Hexbear behavior. "Read the room" indeed.
In the same message the admin has also asked all users to "Be kind to each other, even if you disagree." I'm respecting that request by trying to have a polite discussion with the users in this instance, but I have received nothing but hostility from you in return.
I understand that users outside of Hexbear might be offended by it, and that's entirely understandable and I absolutely agree we should behave ourselves outside of our own instance. But respectfully it isn't your place to tell us how to conduct ourselves within our own instance.
I'm not an admin or a mod for Hexbear, so I don't have the power to dictate what other users say or to remove their comments. My point was this message was needlessly hostile against an instance admin who is acting in good faith and apologizing for a previous action against one of our users. I was politely telling him to cool off and be nice. I apologize if my comment was misinterpreted as an endorsement of what he said. That said, while I understand many users aren't fond of us at Hexbear, I would appreciate if you would not immediately jump to the worst possible interpretations of our comments.
For the record, I think the time and place for such rhetoric would be exclusively within the Hexbear instance, against agitators who are deliberately being hostile towards us. Outside of Hexbear, and with users who are at least trying to engage in good faith, I agree that Hexbear users are often too impulsive with escalating directly to dunks and spamming PPB. In this case, I thought the user was way out of line and I politely told them so. Apparently they agreed and deleted their own comment.
I know Hexbear users can be a bit much, but I think we're capable of having level-headed conversations with other instances about toning it down whenever we step outside our own hive.
No, you're right, it's much more likely that several different users are all doing the same "everything you say is a logical fallacy" shtick, using the exact same Philosophy 101 infographics for these alleged logical fallacies in their posts, all completely failing to understand the logical fallacies they're accusing others of committing, all using the same arguments verbatim, have all been active in the last five hours, all have comment scores that immediately shoot up to 7 after a few minutes, all have posts in the same Star Trek comm where one of the accounts just happens to be a mod, and are all acting like all around shithead trolls everywhere they go. Nope, clearly totally separate people, must be a conspiracy.
Again, no one's buying it.
Honestly I kind of pity you. How bad is your life that you have to sit here for hours on the internet with several different accounts just being a shithead everywhere and just keep arguing with people like a child? It's really pathetic. Get off the computer, go outside, go talk to people.
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ok but when someone says "Hollywood is too woke these days" or "Stop pushing your woke agenda on my children!" it's not exactly a mystery as to what they really mean.