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mk  ·  3533 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How the language police are perverting liberalism

That could probably go in the primer page or about page, some sort of encouragement to vote based on the quality and content of a comment or post, and to restrain from voting simply because you agree with the sentiment.





kleinbl00  ·  3532 days ago  ·  link  ·  

once more with feeling:

I've got most of these people ignored so I can just sort of go "libertarian circlejerk" and move on. I'm all about libertarians having their place to circlejerk and if they want to encourage and discourage and debate and disseminate and cheer on and shout down that's entirely their prerogative.

What you've got here is a viable mechanism whereby it doesn't impact me.

The system works. Don't fuck with it without a damn good reason.

user-inactivated  ·  3533 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Welcome, but I don't think it'll help. Unless you've witnessed that attitude wreck a community you cared about, it's pretty hard to keep it in mind when reading threads. We're human.

mk  ·  3533 days ago  ·  link  ·  

True enough.

Maybe when you upvote comments of less than a certain length you should have to confirm it. Or maybe even better, for very short comments, everyone can see who upvoted it.

Of course, I am kidding. :)

veen  ·  3533 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What about a word counter? Seems like a non-intrusive way to encourage longer (and often better thought-out) comments.

mk  ·  3533 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not a bad idea.

kleinbl00  ·  3532 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It'll just make people verbose and opinionated.

Trust me on this.

mk  ·  3532 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Isn't that what we're all about? :)

user-inactivated  ·  3533 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Every time you share a post or comment, you are instead linked to a lengthy remonstration reminding you that even the smallest actions have far-reaching moral consequences. And a warning that upvoting a comment has the same legal repercussions that being accomplice to a crime carries.

Or just this.