Goonhub
10-14-2020, 08:48 AM
You keep saying "they" and "dogpiling" as though there's a remedy to this.
the "they" in question seems to just be the plurality of players who frequent the channel, and the dogpiling is just an artifact of managing to piss off a large enough number of people with one statement. A talent.
There is no rule or structure in all of space and time that is going to let us, the admins, protect individuals from pissing off as many people as they can, and having those people react somewhat simultaneously to the piss-off. There's not going to be a queue and a microphone to pass around to debate you.
You're taking issue with the format that Discord itself provides but blaming it on us for allowing it to exist in one place instead of everywhere.
Just like it's your choice if you want to make comments on youtube or facebook or twitter, it's your choice to make comments in the cool zone and it's entirely on you whether you've said something that's gonna make people like you, or make people mad at you.
And no, there is not a magical line where an offensive statement is always better than a personal insult in response. There's no such standard anywhere. If you say shit that angers enough people that you can reasonably call those people a dogpile, it stands to reason that you're being out-voted in the free marketplace of ideas and should probably stop before you go bankrupt.
the "they" in question seems to just be the plurality of players who frequent the channel, and the dogpiling is just an artifact of managing to piss off a large enough number of people with one statement. A talent.
There is no rule or structure in all of space and time that is going to let us, the admins, protect individuals from pissing off as many people as they can, and having those people react somewhat simultaneously to the piss-off. There's not going to be a queue and a microphone to pass around to debate you.
You're taking issue with the format that Discord itself provides but blaming it on us for allowing it to exist in one place instead of everywhere.
Just like it's your choice if you want to make comments on youtube or facebook or twitter, it's your choice to make comments in the cool zone and it's entirely on you whether you've said something that's gonna make people like you, or make people mad at you.
And no, there is not a magical line where an offensive statement is always better than a personal insult in response. There's no such standard anywhere. If you say shit that angers enough people that you can reasonably call those people a dogpile, it stands to reason that you're being out-voted in the free marketplace of ideas and should probably stop before you go bankrupt.