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How should we be dealing with left wing trolls going forward? (exploding-heads.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Personally, I think it would be ideal to have one to two instance left wing trolls. If you don’t want to deal with them, you can block them but I think that having 1 to 2 instance trolls or just allowing trolls in general could help drive traffic here and make the place fun especially if you do not take their bullshit too seriously. There is always the risk that they Do a mass rush though. But at least we would get to talk shit to an actual person.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all the feedback on this topic.

My view is people left, right, or otherwise are more then welcome to post, debate, and discuss in good faith at Exploding Heads. It makes all our lives richer.

Trolls who hurl personal insults and assign false motivations are not welcome.

I think @[email protected] said it well.

I am prepared to allow you to operate under a different set of rules in the two Dank Microwave communities, but outside of those communities people follow the standard rules.

Child porn is never acceptable.

I am going to leave down votes enabled as I think a down vote is much better then an insult.

I do not think you should have to provide an email address to give an opinion (this is my strong personal belief), but the cost of that belief is we may get more trolls who take advantage. On balance I would prefer to ban trolls then force perfectly good people to hand over their email address.

I apologize to any of you that suffered insults from trolls. My natural motivation to let people have their say allowed these trolls to take advantage and insult some of you. Sorry.

Please report trolls, I will check their history and ban as appropriate.

The way to handle "misinformation" or "disinformation" is to post a reply explaining why you disagree.

You all have the power in your personal profile to block instances, communities, and people from your personal feed. If you do not know how to do this, just say so and we will show you.

Our active monthly local users has grown 5 fold in the last month and there are a lot more who look but do not interact. You all should be very proud that people like the communities you are building and hanging out with you.