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Always the same complaints from the same people. No, we don't require people to arbitrarily use more words. But if you want to write a post about how much the people you hate are the Worst People Ever, yes, we will require you to put some effort into it to make it worth reading, whereas the people constantly accusing us of bias are the ones who just want to drop a link and sneer.
If this is true, then you should be able to point at an example of me doing this and not even hiding it.
Most short posts (even one-liners) are not modded because we do not have a rule against short posts. We have a rule against dropping one-line snarls.
This sentence needs editing, but give me a concrete example of what you're talking about.
You know what place is dying? /u/CWR. You know why? Because even they get bored of linkspam about how much the people they hate are just the Worst People Ever.
I’m talking specifically about you getting all ass blasted and white knightey when I called a literal actual in real life whore who actually takes real money from real humans in exchange for her business of whoring a whore.
I’m not going to go dig up a link since it seems like you already do know what I’m talking about, and it seems there are other people who are critical of you for the same thing. Hey maybe we’re all experiencing some mass psychosis where we all hallucinate the exact same thing about the exact same person.
/r/cwr has been dying for like 3 years. You’re right links about the same people being not very cool is boring. Is that what you think people keep asking for over and over and over and over when they ask for a return of the BLR every couple of weeks for the last several years?
Here’s the thing: maybe YOU are so immersed in the culture war that this is all boring to you, but my suspicion is that for a large contingent of people, talking about this stuff is still interesting. Our society is at war with itself and yea the battles do keep happening. Sure you’re bored of it, but plenty of people aren’t and want to talk about it and are annoyed that you enforce poor writing skills in order to do so.
Sorry if this post is blunt, but it’s getting annoying having to retread these exaxt same things over and over where the community complains about poor modding and then you pretend you just have No IdEa what they could be talking about.
Not remotely an accurate description of my motives or our modding policies.
Pretty much, yes. That and the lazy ability to drop Twitter-level hot takes.
On the contrary: I do still find it interesting, and sometimes even informative. That's why I resist those who would like to degrade the quality of discussion.
Plenty of people are annoyed that I won't just let them shit on their enemies.
As rhetorical practice: can you steelman the case people keep making to you? What are people asking for? What are their motivations?
They want to drop bare links to something they think is interesting enough to discuss but for which they lack the time or desire to contextualize or comment on. Their motive is a desire to create more discussion threads and get reactions from other posters, with less effort required on their part.
That's the steelman. And it probably is true for some BLR aficionados.
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