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I can't recall another month where there were so many QCs that I found so ideologically disagreeable! That's a good thing though. I'm glad there's been an uptick in topics that generate productive disagreement. Better than being an echo chamber that just beats the same few issues to death.
I agree. It feels like the debates have gotten a little punchier recently, which is a good thing although maybe also a sign of something else.
What do you have in mind?
I think people have gotten more entrenched in their positions over time, and there are fewer semi-neutral interlopers who engage with actual 'curiosity.'
So the people who are left are basically fighting from positions they are VERY familiar with and thus can defend well, but there's going to be less movement of actual beliefs overall. I suspect.
Like, most of my contributions to the above report are me expressing at length positions I've worked myself into over a period of years, and feel very confident in. I am still very open to being challenged and changing my mind, but it seems less likely to happen. So I get a bit punchier in hopes of spurring someone to bring some stronger arguments against me.
Partially may be due to evaporative cooling, but I'm not sure if I'm even correct on the trend.
I think the trend you’re observing is probably real, although in my case one of my contributions is a post where I express an opinion I myself am not 100% comfortable with and that is a change from my prior position. (Specifically, the one about how efforts to raise fertility are probably a lost cause.)
I do think we have a few high-effort contributors who don’t sort easily into any of the major ideological “camps” on the Motte, and I also think that most of the people who have fled the site entirely were not actually the squishy moderates but rather those who were most ideologically rigid and could not deal with the enforced charity rules. That being said, I haven’t been a Motteposter for nearly as long as some others in this community, so perhaps my perspective is skewed.
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