I'm not sure if I want to keep posting on lobste.rs after seeing some recent discussions...
It's not like Hacker News level bad, but there's just... a particular kind of person that seems to be taking over some discussions, the kind that isn't breaking any rules but just... makes insufferable arguments that are blatantly unproductive and makes me not want to be around them.
I flagged a few recent ones as "Unkind" but I don't know if the moderation policy applies (some of them even touch on multiple flag options without being too in your face about any single one, which is another issue). Honestly, it feels like the feature set is just not right to avoid this. Without downvotes, there's no feedback possible that a comment is negative (without necessarily breaking the rules). All you see is upvotes from people who agree, even if they're in the minority, and then the rest are forced to read those comments. And without even a private block/mute feature, we can't even personally hide these kinds of people (not that this is the best solution, because it creates a weird disconnect where people are privately ignored if they are unlikeable but this has no repercussions on them, and no effect on what other users see).
I don't know, it just feels like "community moderation" is broken in the face of people who push just hard enough to be annoying to the rest but not hard enough to warrant hard mod action.
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