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Is it just me, or have the comments on Lemmy become extra aggressive over the past 3 months? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I feel like things on Lemmy were pretty chill several months ago, and that’s started to change.

People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor. Now I get the sense that people have become quick to be negative, attack, and not be constructive.

Am I crazy in feeling like the vibe has changed?

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

We can absolutely do better than reddit on this one. If someone is breaking rule 2 (be respectful), report that comment and we'll get to it as soon as we can.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You’re awesome btw.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Are reports anonymous? I don't want to report a user that breaks rules only for the offending user to be friends with an admin and get me kicked from a community as payback

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, the mods of the community can see who sent the report.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That can be a good thing, too, to find out if someone is abusing the report feature, as was common on Reddit when people didn't like someone's comment.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Reports are not anonymous, but they also aren't public. Only visible to admins and mods of that community.

It's a tradeoff, anonymous report abuse was a big problem on reddit that I didn't want to replicate here. If the admins or mods aren't trustworthy on your server, you should pry move to another one.

[+] Pratai@lemmy.ca -9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Maybe you should take care to follow said rule yourself? Looking through your recent comments in this thread it seems more to me that you are going in hard with bad takes and get hurt from getting dunked at. The question is really: Do you consider yourself respectful when you use ignorance to spite leftists?

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Being pro something you are against does not break the "be respectful" rule.

You really shouldn't go around trying to silence people with different opinions than you.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For the first time in a liberal’s life, your viewpoints are being the least bit challenged. Must be awful, we socialists can’t imagine what you’re going through.