re: #760 Obdicut

I meant personal against Charles. It’s my observation they tend to attack people who were around when they were, women, or Charles himself and people who directly support him in what he tries to do around here.

The main thing I think when I’ve looked over there is “Wow, these threads are really boring.”

I very occasionally miss FARK— it was an entertaining place, but the trolltasticness of it made it very hard to make any sort of connection with anyone. Though there was one amazing climatologist on there— and still is— who I would love to get over here. Jon Snow. Hammers the shit out of the global warming deniers— who are incapable of understanding they’ve had the shit hammered out of them.

This is the only internet community I’ve ever seen that was worth half a damn, beyond /test on the usenet at Uchicago.

They have an extremely weird and inappropriate personal attachment to Charles. Absolutely. Earlier when I mentioned it was a good idea to remember that you don’t know someone if you only know them from posts I had them in mind especially. They’re working out some weird-ass parental issues and hating on daddy. Or something. There’s some entirely inappropriate sense that they ‘know’ him and more— that he’s somehow done something terrible to them.

It’d be great if you could get that guy here. I’d love to get some of the pharyngula commenters over here personally. There’s a few sane web communities out there but this is pretty much the only one I find worthwhile to comment on, let alone register to comment on and be a regular. And that’s largely because we are an extremely diverse community, while also being a sane one. Nearly all of us for all our differences and different political affiliations largely agree on the most important things, imo, which gives me hope politically— it’s important that there be a place where people can interact with others who have different opinions, because it helps to decrease the prevailing polarisation out there in the larger world.

They’ve done some studies on this as well w/r/t the internet: people who read blogs that are wholly left or wholly right become more left or more right because of their community. It’s bad for centrism and working together.