...that’s a very plain-vanilla story with little drama—compared to the baseline of ’net forums and online communities in general.
Well yeah, I suppose that’s true. But the screenwriter can zhuzh it up a bit, throw in a murder somewhere.
It would be… regrettable if LW turned into an ideologically homogeneous place where everyone sees the world in a basically similar way.
Absolutely. I didn’t come here for everyone to agree with me. But disagreement, even passionate ideological disagreement, isn’t the same as obsessively following people around to downvote everything they say. That’s just plain old batshittery. I’ll probably disagree with you at some point but I’m not going to put your name down on my List of Enemies Who Must Be Destroyed. It’s getting cluttered anyway.
...that’s a very plain-vanilla story with little drama—compared to the baseline of ’net forums and online communities in general.
It would be… regrettable if LW turned into an ideologically homogeneous place where everyone sees the world in a basically similar way.
Well yeah, I suppose that’s true. But the screenwriter can zhuzh it up a bit, throw in a murder somewhere.
Absolutely. I didn’t come here for everyone to agree with me. But disagreement, even passionate ideological disagreement, isn’t the same as obsessively following people around to downvote everything they say. That’s just plain old batshittery. I’ll probably disagree with you at some point but I’m not going to put your name down on my List of Enemies Who Must Be Destroyed. It’s getting cluttered anyway.