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PaperclipPerfector  10mo ago (text post)   4277 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 23, 2024

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Activity does seem to be declining, with 750 comments on the last CWR. Any idea why? This is, at least to me, the only place online that has good generalist discussion other than the posts (not comments though) of some substacks.

Religious nonsense taking over. No one wants to post to a place that denies reality.

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This is a large component of why I've withdrawn from posting on a regular basis. Very boring and tiresome dynamic with Christians more and more spamming their respective sect's catechisms, constantly squeezing in extremely disrespectful shade towards atheists and secularists while advocating theocratic intrusion into government, then even mild atheist pushback or criticism of religion getting dogpiled and jannied. Cue an evaporative cooling effect. I encounter enough of that in daily life to be turned off by additional online exposure at the levels found here of late.

I tried checking your history to see what sorts of things you like to post about, and in what tone, but couldn't.

So, anyway, what sorts of things do you like to talk about?

No thanks, I keep private mode on to hinder profiling and dox attempts.

Well, if you won't explain or let me see examples, I have no way of knowing whether your own assessment is accurate in my view, or if the reaction is warranted or not. (Assuming things like that are what you like to talk about, which I did, because you describe it as a major factor.)

Of course, it doesn't really matter.

I'm fine with that. I spoke up to register that AhhTheFrench is not alone in his observations of increasing Christian preaching and having objections to that trend.

Fair enough.

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