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[–] sugarsugar 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

I agree and well said.I think inclusivity is key for this community to thrive.Especially since most people who switched are idealistic about the community anyway.If they werent, I dont think they would take the trouble to show up here after witnessing the atrocities back at the other place.

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[–] ThisisforPosting 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The bigger the sub, the worse it becomes. To prevent that, the community has to put standards in place and enforce them well. I'm glad we've banned memes and that we're leaning against low-effort submissions.

So now we also have to deal with the whole "your opinion is wrong so have a downvote!" attitude and hive mind culture. This can only countered with attracting mature people who are willing to maintain the quality of the sub (as /u/sugarsugar mentioned).

We need to remind both ourselves and others that every opinion has its own merit and that downvoting people with different opinions does not make you any more "right" than opposing opinions. Contribution points should be handed out as what they are, contribution points. This is not a popularity contest, this is about quality of the content someone contributes to the sub or discussion.

EDIT: you're to your

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[–] MrMicrowave 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Hurm...I'm going to be frank; be prepared for it. I imagine that since someone took the effort to DDoS Voat, they'll also take the effort to hire various bad actors to try to sew malice & distraction within the content. Reddit is worth much theoretical monies, and you can be sure that the VCs are going to attempt to protect it.

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[–] toothy_dog_nutz 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

r/gaming was one of those subs where I was afraid to post anything for fear of the pitchforks. I think it's a great idea to try and keep it civil in order to encourage more content.

Edit: lost to post

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[–] FnordX 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

You can't tell me what to do! You're not my mom! /s

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[–] thethreefive 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I'd love to see a system that really educates users to use their voats in a manner that's conducive of a beneficial and diverse community. How many large, and still aggressive1, subs on that-other-website have we seen that go as far as to hide the down arrow or inject a tooltip containing the rules for voting into the page to prevent brigading against opposing thoughts. It seems that no matter how often you reiterate guidelines on not downvoating dissenting opinions, users never seem to listen in large enough volumes to make a difference.

That being said: I don't think this is an impossible war against groupthink, just that I haven't seen an effective tool to diffuse it.

So how does a large community encourage sincere and diverse discourse while inhibiting aggression and dismissal of dissenting viewpoints? Or is such a community unfeasible given the restrictions of this text medium and human tendencies to create and defend ad hoc tribes?

This is an important area of online social systems I think the entire internet (and the companies utilizing it) would benefit from getting some solid scientific research on.

1 Aggression in this case being defined as uncritical evaluation and dismissal of rhetoric presented by an opposing viewpoint.