Civility subsection suggestion

[Shell B]

Listen, I know this might be tough, but we could just, you know, not try to have serious debates with people who suck at it. Get a feel for the room. Ignore the posts that aren't productive and respond to those that are. The dinner table example is a perfect one because soooo many fights happen at the dinner table. You think every family sits down and eats their dinners like polite robots? Even when we're being polite, my family swears like crazy. So, if I'm trying to have a logical discussion, I choose who to engage and who to ignore. For example, if Tibs and I are talking about immigrants in Europe and my uncle pops in and says, "Did you know they're making German people move out of their homes, even leaving their things behind so immigrants can move in?" (An actual example.) I just say, "No, they are not." and move on.

There is one particular poster here who employs hyperbole, moves goalposts and strawmans every single debate I get into with him. I can show over and over again across multiple pages that I never said what I was being accused of, and yet it never, ever gets across. So, I don't have serious debates with that person. I shitpost them right back and respond to more reasonable posts. It's within our power to have the discussions you speak of in the normal part of the forum now, and, as in with real life, engage where, how and with whom we see fit.

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So, the forum would keep people with little education and no self-control out of serious discussions.

That's a good thing.

(Bold mine)

Are we going to start checking people's credentials? If so, Catholic school doesn't count.