(December 13, 2018 at 8:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 13, 2018 at 8:06 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:
Also, would it be possible to implement a 30/30 rule on posting [serious] threads? I'd hate to grant passing trolls like CDF immunity from ridicule.
Not the worst idea.
Boru
The reason this problem exists in the first place is because someone judges that another poster deserves ridicule, personal insults, or other off-topic verbal violence. People have argued to me that seriousness requires unseriousness -- ridicule or incivility.
But if each of us has the right (some say the duty) to switch off our reasonable arguments and go for vileness when we judge that the other person isn't deserving, then nothing will change. Because the people posting vile language always feel it's justified.
If a stupid person makes a thread and asks that it be serious, why should we deny that?
