Comment on !debatebro@ponder.cat - Debate me bro
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 week agoNothing is stopping you from making that tool without mod powers…
I generally don’t even touch the mod buttons except in exceptional circumstances; I don’t expect that this place would be any different. Maybe events will change my mind but I would hope that a lot of this stuff can get worked out with talking and culture, as opposed to by removing comments.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Except the motivation, the time, and a good reason to do so.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 week ago
Do, or do not. There is no try.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean, why would I bother doing that for a community I don’t have influence over?
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 week ago
Well, but you do though. Making comments and getting the respect and agreement of the people in the community is how you get influence.
I really don’t like this Lemmy thing where certain people are empowered by the software to control the communications of other people (beyond just removing spam or abuse or something). I feel like you don’t need that. I really don’t feel like you or me or anybody being put in a position where they can “influence” someone else’s communications unilaterally is really necessary to a good community. Often it is counterproductive. Maybe that’s the issue, you just activated one of my pet peeves in a way that has nothing to do with what you want to do.
Can you tell me more about what you want to do, how you would want to apply Oxford scoring and such? Maybe that could be a whole separate community / idea, I was envisioning this one as being a lot more basic, just can people talk with each other without blatantly mischaracterizing the other person’s points or ignoring questions or etc. But IDK, maybe I just don’t understand the basic concept even yet.