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Originally Posted by browser2920
By the way, don't worry about giving me a hard time. I was a poker dealer for five years. I routinely had to deal with angry players when I had to enforce a rule on them. Not only did I have to absorb their angry comments, I had to tell them they were wrong and do it in such a way that they tipped me afterwards.
I wish you great luck here. I mean that. You seem to have the right attitude.
I don't care what the rules are tbh, as long as they are applied somewhat consistently. I absolutely believe forums like this need some rules and some from of gatekeeper and while it is never perfect it is better than the opposite which ends up being forum anarchy where only extremists want to post, aka 8chan.
If we can cut back the slanderous labeling of others because they hold views we do not or discuss topics some think should not be discussed, all the better. Debate will get 1000 times better here with that simply removal.
As I said, and people tire of hearing Rotten Tomatoes had one of the biggest chat communities back in early 2000's and it was almost lost to CT's, Trolls. People who had very little interest in actual topic debate and only wanted to spam conspiracy theories or troll others for fights. They instituted 3 key posting rules which cleaned up most of the issues. 'No CT's', 'no gratuitous insults' and 'no empty posting'.
the last, if you do not know what that means is just posting a link or video or meme without any original comment from yourself. You had to provide some POV or at least a synopsis of what was being provided. A random insult not attached to something was also 'empty posting' which means you could reply to a post 'it was dumb' in debate but you could not randomly say certain people were dumb, or pedophiles, or bigoted, without any reference to why that was being leveled.