Does that mean that the difference between an echo chamber or not is defined largely by what part is discussed? For instance, if a community only talks about a part of that 90% that everyone likes (say: a subreddit on a topic I like) it'll probably be an echo chamber on that topic, whereas a community that often discusses the 10% will not be an echo chamber.
An echo chamber, by definition, reinforces and repeats an opinion. For instance, "DAE Reddit" is likely to be 90% "LOL Reddit" on Reddit, the other 10% "fuck you, newfag." "DAE Hubski" on Hubski is likely to be 90% "why is this question being asked, exactly" and "...yes? Your point?" and "Where's my STFU button?" There's much less incentive ("upboats!") for adding pointless agreement on sites with a limit to the reinforement.
We've got plenty to disagree about, the fact that we may not clash on political matters as much as art, music, psychology or ethics, science or writing, does not mean that we're an echo chamber. It's this dastardly culture that can take an entire community and evaluate it solely on a political perspective, even to go so far as to divide us into 2-4 categories, and decide that since we only fall under 1 or 2 of those political categories then drawing any conclusion about us therein is justified. That says nothing about the community in my opinion. Especially with this idiotic survey.
Fair enough, I just thought that I'd open the question for discussion, as no one had addressed it within the post I linked to. Well, that was pretty damning... I'd just wanted to see some thoughts, and I got 'em. I really dig it here, and ironically, there were some intense disagreements that played out while I was making the original post. Unfortunately, the content and nature of the discourse mostly revolved around one user being a total moron. 8bit referenced this in his post. As for your statements, I agree with all of them, albeit less passionately.It's this dastardly culture that can take an entire community and evaluate it solely on a political perspective, even to go so far as to divide us into 2-4 categories, and decide that since we only fall under 1 or 2 of those political categories then drawing any conclusion about us therein is justified.
I meant no offense to you man, opening a topic for discourse doesnt make you personally responsible for the topic :D Half the time I make a discussion-based post I don't even take a viewpoint cause I don't even know where I stand yet.
Hey thanks. :) I always enjoy your perspectives, much respect.