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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by tptacek on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:32PM (#22206014)
If what you mean to say is that "the subset of spaces that does not include Voat and Gab is an echo chamber", you are probably saying something about your own views that you might not mean to say.
Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by ar_lan on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:19PM (#22206492)
It's blatantly true that Reddit still holds echo chambers though, and the majority are far-left leaning. r/politics is as much of an echo chamber as r/The_Donald (but one is a default sub, with a deceptive name).
Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by tptacek on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:20PM (#22206515)
That's why I was particular about what I was taking them to be saying. I'm not looking to litigate whether there are echo chambers on Reddit. There clearly are. The question, now tacitly answered, is whether the person I replied to believes any space that excludes Voat and Gab is definitionally an echo chamber.
Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by kerkeslager on Saturday February 01, 2020 @02:52PM (#22212795)
> The question, now tacitly answered, is whether the person I replied to believes any space that excludes Voat and Gab is definitionally an echo chamber.

If that's what you think I was saying, let me clarify: no, that's not what I was saying.

Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by kerkeslager on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:56PM (#22206270)
How so?

To be clear, I definitely don't agree with most of what is said on Voat, and I'm not really familiar with Gab.

Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by tptacek on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:04PM (#22206348)
You might want to familiarize yourself more with services before making sweeping arguments about what excluding them means for the discourse.
Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by kerkeslager on Saturday February 01, 2020 @02:50PM (#22212778)
Having complete information before forming any opinion is an impossibly high standard. My opinion is based on what I know, and I've been pretty open about what I don't know. If you feel there's some relevant information I'm missing, I'd be really happy to hear it, but pointing out that I don't know everything is fairly uninformative.

Let's keep the discussion on the topic, not on me.

Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by tptacek on Saturday February 01, 2020 @10:03PM (#22214878)
The standard you're being held to isn't "complete information".
Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by kerkeslager on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:15AM (#22224817)
What standard am I being held to? Where am I failing to meet that standard? Do you actually have any disagreement with anything I've said, or are you just going to make snide remarks from the sideline?

You aren't making any concrete statements on where you think I'm wrong, and you are evading any questions I've asked to try to get clarity, so to be honest, I have no idea what you actually think I'm wrong about, or even whether you think I'm wrong.

If it were someone else, I'd just dismiss you as a troll, but I've read and respected your opinions in the past, which makes your current method of arguing a bit disappointing for me. You're well-positioned to change my mind if you ever decide to share what you actually think.