Goonhub
04-16-2020, 02:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-16-2020, 03:02 PM by UrsulaMejor. Edited 4 times in total.)
I've been in discussions and communities where labeling things "politics" is used as a bludgeon to silence people, especially non-normative folk whose entire lives have been forced into being political.
It's not that I think our community would do that, I just don't trust those kinds of rules to begin with. in my experience, the rule itself has only ever been used as a tool to use against people, not for people. It's also never once worked to actually make things safer or more pleasant.
We should be focusing on the parts of these conversations that actually cause harm, and not "politics
I promise you that we recognize the difference between good faith and bad faith conversations. if you feel a conversation is going a bad way, inform the admin team.
It's not that I think our community would do that, I just don't trust those kinds of rules to begin with. in my experience, the rule itself has only ever been used as a tool to use against people, not for people. It's also never once worked to actually make things safer or more pleasant.
We should be focusing on the parts of these conversations that actually cause harm, and not "politics
I promise you that we recognize the difference between good faith and bad faith conversations. if you feel a conversation is going a bad way, inform the admin team.