02-13-2024, 02:10 AM
(02-12-2024, 10:42 PM)dtkvictim Wrote:(02-12-2024, 03:21 PM)tomh009 Wrote: If you see offensive posts, please do report them. We can certainly miss some of those.
To clarify, I spend my online time with intent to broaden my information intake and avoid echo chambers, so nothing I've seen on this forum comes close to personally offending me. I'm not likely to report anything unless it's illegal.
My point was that on a relative scale to other discussions here, it didn't seem that bad. Perhaps you would have responded to same in other situations but simply didn't have eyes on them, in which case that's understandable.
I mean, everyone has different tolerances, but things don't have to be illegal to be offensive, and things don't have to be offensive to be unhelpful harmful contributions to a discussion/community.
Frankly, I enjoy this space because the level of discourse is high and not simply emotionally charged screaming as it is in other places. When someone like ac3r calls and insists literally that Trudeau is "evil" and "psychotic" it doesn't broaden my information intake, it degrades it...it replaces issues with emotions. So, while I'm not offended (Trudeau doesn't need my protection) I still don't think it brings any value here, and actively harms reasonable discussions.
But for offensive content, in a previous comment (which I'll admit, I didn't think to report) ac3r referred to homeless people as "vermin" perhaps that isn't a comment you saw, but I would hope that dehumanising a group of people--especially a group of people who are vulnerable and powerless--by referring to them as "vermin" is offensive to you. This is something that SHOULD be offensive to our humanity.