Quote from: DooMAD on Today at 10:18:23 AM

Quote from: TECSHARE on Today at 10:09:46 AM

I did. Any iteration of this idea is retarded and will cause horrible unintended consequences. I suggest when people say things that you don't like you find a way to cope with it or use the existing systems instead of obsessing over new an improved ways to control the speech of others.

Ah yes, it wouldn't be right to have us challenging the classic misconception that "mUh fReEdUmZ oF sPeEch" means anyone is free to spout abject lunacy in a space that's used by many individuals and that any attempts to restrict such behaviour is apparently tantamount to fascism. How terrible a thought. Roll Eyes

The worst thing about that broken line of thinking is that flooding open venues with garbage is the most effective and in the running for the most common way to censor things online today. Because everyone is connected to everyone else simply saying "you can't post this information" mostly doesn't work, often it achieves the opposite effect. At best you can limit its reach to the general public-- but it isn't like the general public, in the broad sense, is using forums like this one in the first place. Instead, the most effective way to suppress ideas and information today is to flood any venue where people would discuss it with trollling/nonsense/counter-"facts", nonsense conspiracy theories, etc. When joe blow sees all the noise he just throws up his arms and decides that the truth is unknowable.

I think virtually everyone in this thread is reading far too narrowly into what I was discussing. When someone posts low effort garbage, often it gets no effective counter (or takes a long time to get one). Most high quality contributors have things they'd rather be doing with their time then wrestling in the mud with brain damaged pigs and their piglets. They click these threads and go NOPE and close them.

Is there a way to capture their nope and turn it into something that makes the forum a more valuable a resource?

Is there a way to make long term contributors, such as my self, feel more empowered and proud of their community and less demoralized by people who would virtually shit all over the figurative walls-- without demanding they take on a big burdensome cleanup duty on their own?