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submitted 3 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This has 300+ upvotes right now though. I ethically agree with you, but I took over this community. If the community upvotes this sort of thing, I don't feel like I have the right to remove it because I think it's stupid and causes harm. I really want to, ha ha.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know the opinion of one anonymous user doesn't carry a lot of weight but this would be my counterargument:

Upvotes are not a good gauge when people will upvoted anything that reinforces their beliefs. Even if it's straight up wrong like so many social media screenshots are.

Not all engagement is good engagement and more activity doesn't necessarily lead to a better community. Lemmy has been flooded with ragebait and say-nothing tweets lately and I fear it's becoming the norm

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

In my experience, if I took this down, the trolls will come out and attack so hard that any other kinds of posts get drowned out. Also, this is being upvoted outside of what I think the trolls can manage in briggading for the fediverse. This would be no problem for reddit, but I haven't seen it here.

Edit: I should note that this poster is one of our best OPs and probably thought it was funny. Doesn't stop it from being troll bait though.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't necessarily think you should remove this one but I'm all for a rule update in general

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

What would that rule look like? No troll baiting maybe, but that would leave it up to me. I'm not sure this community is ready for the blowback.

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 points 3 days ago

I think you're erring on the right side here, but boy do I hate using popularity as the reason. This is lemmy, so most folks are browsing by the all tab. Do you want to have a community shaped by 'all' or do you want the community to be shaped by people subscribed to the community (and following 'the rules' that are set in the community)? It's sort of the flip side of the coin of the women's space community that always whines when people come in to a post they see and comment/vote.