Goonhub
10-13-2020, 06:03 PM
The Cool Zone has been an extremely dogpiley kind of place every time I've looked in there, and that shouldn't be the case of any channel or civil discussion, because that really defeats the point of having it and allows people to be an ass because they're in the majority view of the people in said place. It's shameful and disrespectful that the channel has had, not just one, but numerous instances of expressed dissent, harm, or otherwise ill willed language and thought against any person or group.
I have the Cool Zone muted personally and have for quite a while, but it doesn't change the fact that a large portion of what goes on in there is uncivil and harmful in some manner. I understand that political topics are bound to come up and that discussions will form around that, and that eventually someone is bound to take it to a personal level, but it happens too often there to be chalked up to a one off deal or that the cause is always provocation. Opinions are merely that, opinions, and everyone will have one in some form or manner and I highly doubt that any two people will 100% agree about everything in the exact same way, but there should be a point where there is a disconnect between opinions and person in a way that everyone recognizes that we're all people, made of the same combination of molecules as any other person, and that differences will be had, but shouldn't be made or kept or taken on a personal level.
If the channel is used as intended, i.e. as a place for people to calmly and safely vent about something affecting or tolling them then great, I am fully in support of that, but at current the cool zone is often far from the original intent, and that it's not a safe environment for a large number of people, and that really isn't ok, no matter what your views are or who you are.
I have the Cool Zone muted personally and have for quite a while, but it doesn't change the fact that a large portion of what goes on in there is uncivil and harmful in some manner. I understand that political topics are bound to come up and that discussions will form around that, and that eventually someone is bound to take it to a personal level, but it happens too often there to be chalked up to a one off deal or that the cause is always provocation. Opinions are merely that, opinions, and everyone will have one in some form or manner and I highly doubt that any two people will 100% agree about everything in the exact same way, but there should be a point where there is a disconnect between opinions and person in a way that everyone recognizes that we're all people, made of the same combination of molecules as any other person, and that differences will be had, but shouldn't be made or kept or taken on a personal level.
If the channel is used as intended, i.e. as a place for people to calmly and safely vent about something affecting or tolling them then great, I am fully in support of that, but at current the cool zone is often far from the original intent, and that it's not a safe environment for a large number of people, and that really isn't ok, no matter what your views are or who you are.