Pros: it will be exciting and engaging to see someone with a federated name and the notice their opinion being dogshit
Cons: mathematically proven to not have cons
Every freak on here’s just gunna’ desperately scramble to “dunk” on them and embarrass us all.
As one of the rare non-hexbear who still sees hexbear content and occasionally comments, yeah this is the issue. Hi everyone!
My team and I are analyzing all 132 of your comments. R&Ding the perfect dunk. Be prepared.
Every further comment you make only increases the metricized dunk-matrix quotient.
Go for it. It’s mostly that it makes others not want to interact with you guys. I obviously don’t really care that much. You don’t convince them of anything except maybe making them dislike you, so the opposite of what you should want. I know it enforces group think and makes others in the group feel more attached so they don’t leave really, but it’s not going to turn anyone new into a leftist.
Sadly true. Even if we don’t have aspirations of being on the lib to left pipeline, we definitely scare people off by being overzealous with dogpiling.
I think people should be more patient with those who have lib-smelling inquiries, but I’m all in favor of bullying the bad-faith posters incapable of questioning their assumptions. I see more of the latter than the former, which is why I think so many here are quick to start roasting.
I find it amusing when there are threads with half the responses are giant walls of text trying to explain things and the other half pictures of a pig shitting on its testicles.
Makes me wish Lemmy supported having both federated & unfederated comms or per-comm federation lists, so we could have federated 101-type spaces where dunks are explicitly removed, and unfederated shitposting free from intrusion.
I totally agree bad faith arguments deserve all the shit they get. I just think the comment “shitting on” good faith arguments do more harm than good. There are a ton of bad faith arguments. I, personally, just tend to ignore or rebut their claims so it doesn’t hurt anything. The hexbear version of dunking on them doesn’t promote anything good and at best turns the single person posting on it away. The ideal is to convince other viewers of alternatives.
If someone’s posting bad faith arguments I would rather not waste anyones time interacting with them, they’re certainly not there to be educated.
Chasing them off with mockery seems like the least bad option, if the other options are giving it credibility by trying to respond or ignoring it.
The problem is discerning the difference between the two can be inconsistent, leading to some users effort posting while others mock.
This is one of those things that does a good job of demonstrating for normal social cohesion mechanisms are villified when observed in fringe groups. You have no problem insulting and condescending and yet criticize us for the same, even as people have been nice to you. I don’t care to flatter the sensibilities of whoever the next NATOist shitlib is telling me about asiatic hordes, they are clearly not interested in learning. What matters are the people who don’t have the same moronic confidence that the NATOists do.
My problem is that a lot of the people here think that insulting people who mostly agree with you is the norm. Sure, inform people of what’s going on and what’s wrong with their justification, but “dunking on them” isn’t going to change their opinion. It doesn’t matter how many times they see the image of the pig shitting on its balls. It’s not going to change their mind. The ideal should be to change people’s opinion. We should be trying to create more leftists, not trying to create more anti-tankies.
My problem is that a lot of the people here think that insulting people who mostly agree with you is the norm
Ok provide one or two examples of this happening. Cause I’m always there for the dunking and even I’m amazed at how consistently, almost universally shit lemmy users are
Do you think I just save examples like this to share? It happens, and we all know that. There’s really no need to prove it. I’ve got an example of a fairly well cited critique that I did here a while ago that only got shitty responses of people trying to dunk on me, or just unwilling to acknowledge what I said. I’m not searching through my entire history to find it though, but if you want to feel free.
