Great writing on the current Reddit saga. The author put down in words a lot of things in my mind I couldn’t find the right words.

  • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    As a counter-argument, I never liked this. Because everyone who disagrees gets silenced and even made invisible.

    During covid, it was pretty much impossible to disagree that we all must be vaccinated and isolated, or suggesting that natural immunity is much better than vaccinating for younger people. Only afterwards has it become accepted as the truth. During covid, you would be called a conspiracy theorist for talking about natural immunity instead of vaccines.

    Even if you don’t agree with this specific point, I wanted to bring it up and show how it creates a complete echo chamber and makes sure everyone seems to agree, because people who don’t are silenced.

    This means most people will not see that there is another way of seeing things, and they will believe that only one solution is possible.

    Same thing with war scenarios. If you don’t agree there should be a war, you are called unpatriotic. So many ways people get silenced. I think we should avoid that.

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      Natural immunity to covid has never been accepted as better. You’re still a conspiracy theorist with very dangerous things to say

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        1 year ago

        Just sneak it in with some exaggerated examples no one supported and hope nobody calls you on it…

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      1 year ago

      I mean that point was never true, and isn’t true now. Vaccines are much better than getting COVID19. I have no problem removing posts that are flat out wrong according to current knowledge. Conspiracy theories are a waste of time outside of communities dedicated to that.

    • meisterlix@sh.itjust.works
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      Well, your COVID example is a pretty good example for how downvoting actually works for regulating communities. Because like, y’know not vaccinating young people is factually wrong and saying opinions about that were suppressed is conspiratorial thinking

    • Zigabyte@beehaw.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      In the context of Hacker News, disagreement is welcomed (in a way even encouraged) as long as it is constructional and argumentative.

      Again, depends on what the community accepts and wants. I agree politically sensitive topics are turmoil, but it doesn’t take much for a community to be accepting of different views.

      If the goal is to feed intellectual curiosity, another way of seeing things is always welcomed as long as it is written well