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There are hardly any left-wingers left, in my observation most explicitly left-wing posters who don't quit are eventually deemed trolls.
There are several things going on here:
(In fairness, a couple of our remaining leftist posters do the same thing, to the same effect.)
But this brings me to my last point:
\3. I've commented on this before, and many others have made the same point: this forum, by virtue of the fact that it even allows right-wing opinions, naturally attracts a lot of right-wingers, and not just the civic Republican types, but the Holocaust deniers, the Repeal the 19th types, white nationalists, "pedophile fascists," armageddon-cosplayers like Kulak, etc. We don't attract a lot of leftists, especially not hardcore, ideologically committed leftists, because they have everywhere else on the Internet where their views are the norm and anyone arguing with them will get banned. We occasionally get a new leftist here who is shocked and appalled that we aren't banning Holocaust deniers or people who post about low black IQs. They usually either flame out or leave. Online leftists nowadays mostly just aren't used to dealing with rightists in an environment where they don't "win" by default because the mods are on their side.
So it's not really that left-wing posters who don't quite are eventually deemed trolls; we mods really do try to be fair to everyone, and we're not all rightists. The problem is that the leftists who (a) don't quit because badthink is allowed here; (b) have the persistence to stick around; (c) don't lose their cool and start responding belligerently, is a very small set.
(And again, in fairness, there are rightists who lose their shit that leftists are allowed to post, and they get banned a lot, contributing to the evaporative cooling and claims that we have our thumbs on the scale for leftists.)
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What, you don't think "dae women should be property, also all sex is bad and evil and if u don't agree ur a cuck?" for the thousandth time is driving positive or thoughtful engagement?
Ironically it's only the female and the gay posters that have ever provided any worthwhile insight into relationship dynamics; I think about the framing of 'devotion fatigue' [extrapolated from old postings, never quite explicitly stated] quite a bit, since now that I have more language that reminds me it's a thing I just see it everywhere now.
Devotion fatigue sets in faster for the "leftists", partially because the things they tend to be wrong about are more emotionally charged/there's very little emotional validation for what they are right about by comparison; the trick is, uh, not being obnoxious about it. That's harder in a collective for what should be obvious reasons.
Honestly, /r9k/ had a solution to this especially if you coupled an LLM knowledge base trained on threads that go the same way; it would be nice to identify and auto-hide uninsightful consensus positions without having to think about it. Alas, no such platform exists.
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That was the joke he was making.
Who specifically do you think was unfairly called a troll? And given your objection above, who do you think was banned for being a left winger?
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that's the joke
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