1) include culture war material in their own posts, and use this to prevent anyone from criticizing them, or
2) include things in their own posts that are not culture war, but to which a cultural war reference is genuinely relevant (sometimes to the point where they are saying something that can’t be properly refuted without one)?
Play it by ear, but my instinctive reaction is to downvote (1). Options for (2) include “downvote”, “ignore”, and “try to tactfully suggest that you think they’ve banned discussion that would be useful, and between you try to work out a solution to this problem”. Maybe they’ll allow someone to create a CW-allowed discussion thread for that post and then to summarise the contents of that thread, so they don’t actually have to read it.
It partly depends whether their posts are attracting attention or not.
What do you do to people who
1) include culture war material in their own posts, and use this to prevent anyone from criticizing them, or
2) include things in their own posts that are not culture war, but to which a cultural war reference is genuinely relevant (sometimes to the point where they are saying something that can’t be properly refuted without one)?
Play it by ear, but my instinctive reaction is to downvote (1). Options for (2) include “downvote”, “ignore”, and “try to tactfully suggest that you think they’ve banned discussion that would be useful, and between you try to work out a solution to this problem”. Maybe they’ll allow someone to create a CW-allowed discussion thread for that post and then to summarise the contents of that thread, so they don’t actually have to read it.
It partly depends whether their posts are attracting attention or not.