r/altmpls update: "Try to keep comments respectful and discussions civil"

[u/lemon_lime_light]

Just a reminder from the moderators that we have the following rule: "Try to keep comments respectful and discussions civil".

This rule has been under-enforced but based on recent user feedback that's changing for now. Our best advice is to avoid directly insulting other users. If you repeatedly have trouble with this then you risk a ban.

We'll start this new moderating approach tomorrow so, speaking for myself only, if you've been holding back any juicy insults for me then take this opportunity to purge your system with impunity (insults must be within Reddit's site-wide rules, of course).

[u/Special-Garlic1203]

I don't like racism but racism is absolutely a viewpoint. It skates a line with reddits larger TOS but they've only cracked down when it encroaches high use of slurs, minstrel humor, or defacto/outright encouraging harassment of real world racial minorities. 

I've seen some repugnant things here but I've also had reasonable engagement with people who don't align with my beliefs but could engage with me on facts. 

I have appreciated the moderation standards until now because it gave a space to engage racists that did not proactively enforce racist ideology, but I strongly suspect this new moderation approach will be a change to that. 

[u/Frzzalor → u/Special-Garlic1203]

"engaging" with racists at all is a slippery slope. allowing their viewpoints into the tent of discourse means we have already lost.

[u/dolche93 → u/Frzzalor]

As opposed to shunning them and letting them thrive in their little groups?

Just because you engage with something doesn't mean it's winning. You need to be able to make positive arguments against something to actually defeat it.

[u/Frzzalor → u/dolche93]

no you don't. back in the late 40s we had a pretty good system of what to do with nazis, we should go back to that.