US Politics |OT|

[thehunter]

the-pi-guy said:

firebush03 said:

In defense of the person you’re responding to: “3 people responded…you didn’t even bother to address a single one” sounds like the forum dog-pilled and the user (rationally) concluded that it wasn’t worth the energy to respond. I feel like there should be some moderation that prevents such aggressive ganging, as it only leads to an echo chamber.

I can’t even speak freely of my stances here b/c — as I have learned three times — I’ll be crucified by like twenty people lol.

If 3 responses is your definition of getting dogpiled, then I would say you're using the wrong websites. 

Pretty much the whole point of a public forum, is to get lots of different perspectives. I can post a thread and expect to get 50 posts from 40 different people. The big benefit of this is that you aren't relying on one persons perspective and knowledge base.  

If I write a post about politics and make some errors, there's lots of people that can correct me. 

I've posted on Reddit, Facebook, ResetEra, Neogaf, YouTube. Small forums and big. Even on some of the smaller ones, if I only got 3 responses I'd feel like I was being ignored. 

I was speaking to the original post I responded to, not to the collective chatter that has happened recently here.  If you were ever in a proper debate though (eg Oxford), you'd be called out for ad hominum for presuming upon my motives and that you're entitled to a reply.

I don't mind disagreeing with you, but up your game!