I think it’s easy to distinguish between insults and honest differences of opinion. Block or ban the personal insulters and tell the persons who have differing opinions why they’re wrong.

Thanks for all the feedback on this topic.

My view is people left, right, or otherwise are more then welcome to post, debate, and discuss in good faith at Exploding Heads. It makes all our lives richer.

Trolls who hurl personal insults and assign false motivations are not welcome.

I think @veritas@exploding-heads.com said it well.

I am prepared to allow you to operate under a different set of rules in the two Dank Microwave communities, but outside of those communities people follow the standard rules.

Child porn is never acceptable.

I am going to leave down votes enabled as I think a down vote is much better then an insult.

I do not think you should have to provide an email address to give an opinion (this is my strong personal belief), but the cost of that belief is we may get more trolls who take advantage. On balance I would prefer to ban trolls then force perfectly good people to hand over their email address.

I apologize to any of you that suffered insults from trolls. My natural motivation to let people have their say allowed these trolls to take advantage and insult some of you. Sorry.

Please report trolls, I will check their history and ban as appropriate.

The way to handle “misinformation” or “disinformation” is to post a reply explaining why you disagree.

You all have the power in your personal profile to block instances, communities, and people from your personal feed. If you do not know how to do this, just say so and we will show you.

Our active monthly local users has grown 5 fold in the last month and there are a lot more who look but do not interact. You all should be very proud that people like the communities you are building and hanging out with you.

Honestly some stuff they post is actually interesting. The problem is that that almost any guy walking in here is discussing in bad faith.

Like you can call me a nazi, racist whatever and post articles but when there is a rebuttal to the article in question I expect OP to come to the comments to explain why they thought it was a good article.

Just dumping some incorrect articles and thinking “I le epically troled” is just regarded and should be met with a ban.

Talking about these folks https://exploding-heads.com/u/Duff

Dumps regarded articles and doesnt respond when he knows he is wrong. Unless this lazy fucker sleeps for 19 hours. Thats also a possibility.

I think you should just fuck with them, let them stay as long as they stay entertaining to you or provide a serious discussion. The moment they turn lame or start spamming whack them out. Let them waste their time.

I think we should allow them here unless they are very uncivil, obvious bad actors, you know the type. The kind that only post insults and never participate in good faith. Everyone should be allowed a voice even if they only use it to say opinions I disagree with.

This site should welcome open discussion. It makes things interesting.

Well let’s start by not making a big drama out of them whenever they appear. I would say that your reaction to trolls the last time wasn’t very good. You made several posts replying to them which made them think that they triggered you. In the future when trolls appear just ban them

I say

• don’t ban anyone who doesn’t violate the very rules we follow
• probably disable down votes. Down votes are never that great anyway.

• Complains that regular instances want to defederate them

• Wants to defederate other instances

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I want @masterofballs@exploding-heads.com and @admin@exploding-heads.com opinion on this as well as @Lovstuhagen@exploding-heads.com

Ban all instances of course!

If we allow trolls we should disable downvoting