Worthless Loser
Blackpilled
The reason I'm going public with this is because it's a problem and potentially an abuse of power. And I'm sure there are other members who have similar issues.
Some background: In Higher Learning there is an echo chamber of liberal thought. Whoever disagrees are labeled concern trolls, other types of trolls and Trump supporters. I myself am a moderate liberal and still have been subject to this.You would think Higher Learning is a quality place where you can debate people, exchange ideas, and respectfully agree or disagree with each other. Instead it's a herd and a political version of TLR.
In the Impeachment thread it's the same way. Everyone has the same thoughts on Impeachment and those who don't have the same thoughts are drowned out because people can't seem unable to tolerate different perspectives.
@Rarely-Wrong Liggins, a TLR mod mentioned the heat toward others with different opinions in this post:
Here's the problem:
I was wondering why the media and people were so hyped over what Trump's Chief of Staff said, because I personally didn't think it was the "smoking gun" as people acted like it was. In the middle of debating people, they get upset and report my posts. I get "low quality posting" warnings for these two posts:
There was nothing low quality about these posts, nor was I trolling. They were and are my legitimate thoughts. My concern is a mod can use the "low quality posting" warning for posts they simply disagree with. After a while, warnings pile up and suddenly a member is in the bushes for no real reason.
This warning option can be subject to abuse if it's not going to be used the right way. This empowers the echo chamber in Higher Learning because they will feel like anyone they disagree with, they can just report the posts and a mod will warn that member. It's almost like indirectly thinking they have the mods in their back pockets while the optics of the warning serve as a direction to the warned member that your thoughts are not the thoughts we want posted on this forum. Again, that plays into the echo chamber.
This can't continue to happen. That's not how warnings should be given out.
Some background: In Higher Learning there is an echo chamber of liberal thought. Whoever disagrees are labeled concern trolls, other types of trolls and Trump supporters. I myself am a moderate liberal and still have been subject to this.You would think Higher Learning is a quality place where you can debate people, exchange ideas, and respectfully agree or disagree with each other. Instead it's a herd and a political version of TLR.
In the Impeachment thread it's the same way. Everyone has the same thoughts on Impeachment and those who don't have the same thoughts are drowned out because people can't seem unable to tolerate different perspectives.
@Rarely-Wrong Liggins, a TLR mod mentioned the heat toward others with different opinions in this post:
The thing is, everything that's been said above prior to Liggins post is actually fine. It sucks because it hurts the potential diversity of the section and overall quality of the section and that's not how the section should run, but it's something people has learned to deal with since everything is so politically polarizing these days and the moderation allows it.
Here's the problem:
I was wondering why the media and people were so hyped over what Trump's Chief of Staff said, because I personally didn't think it was the "smoking gun" as people acted like it was. In the middle of debating people, they get upset and report my posts. I get "low quality posting" warnings for these two posts:
There was nothing low quality about these posts, nor was I trolling. They were and are my legitimate thoughts. My concern is a mod can use the "low quality posting" warning for posts they simply disagree with. After a while, warnings pile up and suddenly a member is in the bushes for no real reason.
This warning option can be subject to abuse if it's not going to be used the right way. This empowers the echo chamber in Higher Learning because they will feel like anyone they disagree with, they can just report the posts and a mod will warn that member. It's almost like indirectly thinking they have the mods in their back pockets while the optics of the warning serve as a direction to the warned member that your thoughts are not the thoughts we want posted on this forum. Again, that plays into the echo chamber.
This can't continue to happen. That's not how warnings should be given out.
