Subj : Re: Politics
To   : Avon
From : Atreyu
Date : Sun Mar 06 2022 07:58 am

On 05 Mar 22  14:55:00, Avon said the following to All:

A> For me I'm not against political discussion per say but I am against any
A> hurtful or unkind or extreme discord that can unfortunately arise when
A> something in that political or religious space comes up and people feel they
A> must defend their point of view tooth and nail but do so in a way that
A> descends into acrimony.

Things are only offensive if that person allows themselves to be offended. No
written words have ever offended me, ever. Its only words; written in some
silly message in some silly net only a fraction of the world uses anymore.

It really amazes me that of all the Linux or technically-competent people you
have here, nobody thinks to use a twit-filter to trash the messages from
senders they don't want on their system. I'm running old MS-DOS stuff that
allows me to do this. And my stuff also has something called a Next key, 
because I'm a mature adult who doesn't need a moderator or babysitter. I can 
decide to involve myself in a message thread, or not.

The majority of that hurtful/extreme discord you mention, are a couple of non
Americans trolling about American politics for no reason other than thats
their definition of fun for them. I doubt you'll find anyone supporting Putin 
and if you did, its your net, you can suggest that they go elsewhere for fun.

Maybe a suggestion that might work here would be, "Don't troll" or "Don't be a
dick", or better, "Don't annoy others and don't allow yourself to be annoyed" 
as it is worded in the policy of another net.

Atreyu

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