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comment by tacocat
tacocat  ·  1308 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wait, are we doing it wrong? [Potential major Hubski experiment]

Seems unnecessary given the size of the user base





kleinbl00  ·  1308 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Truth. am_Unition linked to his gun discussion thread and I realized my comment had been shared like 140 times. Total, overwhelming approval right now is like 14 shares. I was reminded today that theoretically I have 1300-something followers. There can't be more than a dozen people here at any given time.

It's like deciding you should rearrange the stadium because the one AA meeting that comes in every thursday tends to cluster in one corner.

am_Unition  ·  1307 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Man, so many grey usernames for me who shared your top comment in that guns thread. I try to keep track of everyone, to some degree (edit: huehuehuehue), and it had eluded me how far we'd regressed from perhaps peak activity until now.

F :(

mk  ·  1308 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It might not work for that reason. However, many that have left have told me that they have because of how things currently work.

From my best non-subjective take, I don't judge us as a particular standout for our thoughtful discussion. We are ok at times, not great at others. That matches most of the feedback I get.

tacocat  ·  1308 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know if I understand your idea. But I think it's fine here. Especially compared to other websites.

I did dip for a while but that was a me problem.

I was thinking about online interactions and I think they're by nature just prone to unique problems

I was also thinking about how for most of history thoughtful interaction was limited to media that took hours-years. The debate me bros like Ben Shapiro think debate is the finest form of logic when it's just an argument. Philosophers would spend years writing long reactions to some argument they disagreed with that they read years after it was written after taking years to write. I don't have an example but you probably catch my drift. And science? Woo buddy