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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 25, 2024

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Please explain.

My biggest sin so far is being uncharitable towards Mike Pence. I think that is my top downvoted comment. Ripping on DEI stuff should have off set it, but man, people really like Mike Pence! If you have too many downvotes some/all of your posts go to mods for approval and the conversation often passes you by or is out of context by the time your post goes up.

That was a pretty bad comment.

Someone: "Mike Pence is a good role model"

You: Scornfully list a bunch of things you think are terrible about Mike Pence, assuming that everyone agrees the same things are terrible

The problem is chiefly the contempt and lack of justification. If you'd merely listed those as reasons that you don't think people should support Mike Pence, yes, you'd draw downvotes, but not as much.

That is, explaining why you support things in a way that shows that you understand that people can disagree on the issue and not be crazy, since there are a bunch of people present who would disagree with you on at least some points of your attack on Pence, and who do not fancy themselves crazy.

I at least am in favor of 1, 3, and 4, and get the motivation behind 2, even if I don't think it's good. Does that mean I like everything about Pence? No. But it does mean that your tirade isn't the self-evident thing you think it is, and recognizing that allows for better conversation.

Yeah I mean it was bad... but it was better than the "liberals are NPCs" stuff that gets heavily upvoted.

It looks like there's some rate-limiting/auto-hiding based on comment score leftover from the rdrama code. Certain users have finally hit the threshold for their posts being filtered to the mod queue like a new user's, but not this guy that I've noticed.

Whoa.

I hope someone removes that.

I find it a welcome respite personally. Haven't seen the code, but it seems like someone has to be really consistently awful for it to trigger.

We've asked, and it's apparently not practical. We try to fish them out as quickly as possible.