I was just reading posts on there a few minutes ago and it is now banned. That sub was pretty much just educational, this shit is getting ridiculous.

    • comfy
      26·
      3 years ago

      It’s hard to find places like that, willing to have the repetitive, draining tolerance of seeing the same arguments each day cluttering their threads and not just yelling ‘read a book!’ or banning them. I have much respect, even though it has an impact on the community.

      • CoinOperatedBoi
        20·
        3 years ago

        It helps when the educational space is separate and can be engaged with consciously instead of just being part of your daily feed. A lot of the people who are most well equipped to educate are also at major risk of burnout and violated boundaries if they spend too much time justifying their own beliefs or existence

        • comfy
          10·
          3 years ago

          Yeah, I’ve had a few people in other places express interest in developing a thorough set of FAQs on their own wiki so that in the tourist-heavy places, they can just link to it instead of burning themselves out over mini-essays that a troll won’t even bother reading.

          • CoinOperatedBoi
            9·
            3 years ago

            The biggest barriers are someone literally taking the plunge to set up the wiki and then having a community with sufficient interest in moderating it once it is inevitably brigaded

            • comfy
              9·
              3 years ago

              Absolutely. Luckily there are a couple I know of that have taken the plunge and have enough initial content that people can see value in it and get interested in keeping it updated, but at the end of the day it’s harder to maintain interest on a dry informative project, I would assume. (as for brigading, account verification kind of like this site counters many of the more casual vandals, and on a wiki I guess you have the ability to screen with actual theoretical knowledge, since it’s expected that you know what you’re talking about if you’re editing. Either that or a vouch from an existing member)

              I don’t have experience with prolewiki.org, but seeing as it has 1000+ articles in the English site and a range of community links, I’d like to think it’s modestly successful. (I checked the About page and apparently it’s explicitly born out of Lemmygrad. !prolewiki I did not know that.

              leftypedia.org has 500+ articles, but this section is what I’m interesting in seeing grow: https://leftypedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric There’s evidently room for improvement and expansion, but those kind of easy-to-link rebuttal pages could be very useful for communities with lots of tourists who don’t need personallized replies to say “This page explains it”.