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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    this conversation has some seeds for productive discourse, but that doesn’t seem to be the direction that things are headed toward right now.

    Why is some unproductive discourse a problem? Why is it so severe that a (hypothetical) thread lock is needed?

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      2 hours ago

      If a conversation isn’t productive and people are just becoming mean and ugly toward each other, then all we’re left with is people being mean and ugly toward each other. That doesn’t promote community, it creates rage bait. And not that it necessarily means a conversation can’t be productive, I would assume — although maybe incorrectly — that the reason people are on Lemmy is because they’ve seen what happens when rage is monetized on social media platforms, and they came here to get away from that.

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        41 minutes ago

        all we’re left with is people being mean and ugly toward each other.

        Disagree. There would be some people being mean and ugly toward each other, but those subthreads can easily be hidden by the user.

        rage is monetized on social media platforms

        Yes, we certainly don’t want to encourage rage for attention and clicks. But locking a thread always seemed over-authoritarian to me.

        Obviously I’m only talking hypothetically here. I’m trying to understand the logic behind locking threads in general. Nothing against you or regarding this topic in particular.