You know what? That’s my mistake. For whatever reason, I thought they were a mod here.
Regardless, posting the craziest parts of comment sections are no more representative of an instance than a single user represents a community. Basically any comment section over 30 comments is going to have some out-there ideas.
Having a community where people can openly call them “fascist bootlickers” for theories somewhat based on the context of the rest of the comments, that have nothing to do with fascism, is kinda nuts.
it’s just strange that you don’t think this is representative of tankies. i mean we have hundreds of posts of all different examples of all sorts of different users, even prominent tankies and their admins too.
And I’m saying you could find examples of people being nuts and having shitty opinions in every comment section, regardless of the instance. I see every instance from .today. I mean, if we’re going by upvotes my comments in the same section had 52, 49, and 35 upvotes. This one had 111. By your metric, that would be more representative of the community, right?
We could go and find all the most upvoted comments of every section screenshotted on .ml and post those instead, see what we find.
![Fascist bootlickers call Piefed a CIA op and thought policing because [checks notes] it has admin tools for checking upvote/downvote reputation](https://media.piefed.social/posts/y9/uO/y9uOwnSI62W4hjZ.jpg){kind=link}
You know what? That’s my mistake. For whatever reason, I thought they were a mod here.
Regardless, posting the craziest parts of comment sections are no more representative of an instance than a single user represents a community. Basically any comment section over 30 comments is going to have some out-there ideas.
Having a community where people can openly call them “fascist bootlickers” for theories somewhat based on the context of the rest of the comments, that have nothing to do with fascism, is kinda nuts.
Just so i get this right, do you believe that posts featured in this community are examples of these outliers and not representative of tankies?
or do you take issue that the title isn’t neutral enough?
I take issue with insults and presenting curated screenshots as representative of communities, yes.
You don’t think a comment of 17 upvotes is representative of their community?
No? That’s a weird thing to say.
Okay, so what is representative then? What metric are you going by?
I don’t understand this argument, it’s like you’re trying to get me to justify this community when I already gave my reasons for disliking it.
I don’t need to have a metric for enjoying myself.
it’s just strange that you don’t think this is representative of tankies. i mean we have hundreds of posts of all different examples of all sorts of different users, even prominent tankies and their admins too.
And I’m saying you could find examples of people being nuts and having shitty opinions in every comment section, regardless of the instance. I see every instance from .today. I mean, if we’re going by upvotes my comments in the same section had 52, 49, and 35 upvotes. This one had 111. By your metric, that would be more representative of the community, right?
We could go and find all the most upvoted comments of every section screenshotted on .ml and post those instead, see what we find.