• jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 month ago

    Having had to lock posts because the conversation was going off the rails and getting very heated and political… that is the right call.

    If the purpose of the community isn’t being served by the discussion, it should be shutdown, let people have their internet fights somewhere else.

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        2 days ago

        Nothing is stopping you from making the post to continue the argument elsewhere. Or making a community to have that argument.

        If a gardener doesn’t want to have people fighting in their garden I see no problem with that.

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          2 days ago

          Removed by mod

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      30 days ago

      Exactly. That scenario is exactly why locking is possible. You lock the thread so people can’t keep derailing, and are forced to actually take it to the appropriate places instead.

      OP is just butthurt because they couldn’t argue politics in an apolitical community anymore.

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      28 days ago

      Even when the mod was involved in the political talk and didn’t get their shit removed?

      This is clearly PTB material.