There’s probably a better community for asking this, but I haven’t been able to find that one either.

What I’m looking for is a place to discuss ideas that encourages good-faith conversation, staying on topic, and being decent to one another - while actively discouraging mean-spirited, facetious, or bad-faith responses that focus on criticizing the person asking the question rather than engaging with the substance of it. And by “discouraging,” I mean active moderation with very low tolerance for that kind of commentary.

  • Character_Locked@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    2 days ago

    it would likely result in a large number of the currently active users here getting themselves banned from it

    Absolutely. People here can’t even help themselves when it comes to going into a community literally called “Reddit” to shit on people for talking about Reddit. Or going into a community called “WitchesvsPatriarchy” to not all men any conversation about the patriarchy.

    You can bet your ass that any community like one that you’re talking about would be flooded by smartass replies and jokes at first. And the moment moderators start banning people, they’ll be crying about their ‘free speech’.

    • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I actually found pretty much what I was looking for. Not very active community and I don’t know how well it’s moderated but at least I can give it a chance next time such topic comes to mind.

      !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca

      Crazy what amount of pushback I’m getting for even daring to ask such thing. It clearly must be fascism and pedofilia I want to advocate for in there because why else would someone want to have serious conversations…

      • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Please don’t be disheartened!

        The people screaming at you are the ones who feel personally insulted, because they are terrified that you might not want to hear the stupidity that flows from their keyboard.

        You can see them constructing, in real time, all kinds of strawmen about why it shouldn’t exist.

        And to support you, many communities exist where moderators undertake the task of preventing uninformed and pointless discussion from taking over. There’s a couple of science and physics-based ones that I can recall from Reddit… where if you made any comment that he was slightly off topic, speculative, or not rooted in the ethic of scientific discovery… it was instantly removed.

        Further to that, I can think of many communities where if you are not a professional in the field, a credentialed scientist, or able to demonstrate competency, you’re simply not allowed to be there. Not just not comment, one can’t even be there.

        Stay strong. Your point has been more than proven by the babies squabbling here.