Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by orpheline on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:21PM
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My concern: the person expressing 'calming, positive comments' gets doxed and/or SWAT'ed for their efforts.
I agree in principle with what your suggesting, but at this point those boards are echo chambers, not spaces for discussion.
Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by blablabla123 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:57AM
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Valid concern... Probably one shouldn't approach the situation with a 'improve discussion' hat on, but rather with a 'participating in critical discussion' hat. I mean just people actually reading articles, comments, thinking about them and answering would probably be a high advancement in culture.
I recently got an account at a more or less alt-right news website and the comments there were all just rants that stood for themselves.
People voice their trashy opinions there - which is totally fine - but there are so few balancing/calming opinions. Especially if you have some conspiracy affine news site/YT video, these balancing/calming opinions are just not present.
My conclusion at the moment is that more balanced people (no, not bots :)) should visit these sites and write calming/positive comments. Dialogue has become pretty unfashionable in 2019, monologues seem to have become the norm unfortunately although I think there is hope.