The problem comes when people start interpreting respectful. What if people disagree with what is considered respectful. What if people decide it’s disrespectful to discuss Q posts and theories. Just like hate speech. What is hate speech. How does one regulate such a thing. It’s just dangerous to restrict speech at all. That’s why we have free speech in our country. Or used to.
Because the end result patently would not be free speech; it’d be the exact opposite. It would, in certain fact, be the end of this community, and the end of the ability to talk about Q online.
IMO, when someone's opening Salvo is ad homeium attacks on a question or a well thought response citing different sources of information, that you've gathered from your own research, then that person isn't being respectful. People come here wanting to learn. Its OK if they disagree, or have conflicting information. Have a discussion. Check their comment history. Consider their arguments. Look at their sources. Share your sources.
No doubt. I have no problem with the idea of being respectful. Everyone should be respectful. Its just the matter of forcing people to do something. They should do it because its right, and because people will shun them for doing wrong, not because they are forced into submission.
The problem comes when people start interpreting respectful. What if people disagree with what is considered respectful. What if people decide it’s disrespectful to discuss Q posts and theories. Just like hate speech. What is hate speech. How does one regulate such a thing. It’s just dangerous to restrict speech at all. That’s why we have free speech in our country. Or used to.
On a “platform”, yes.
This isn’t a “platform”, it’s a community.
The mods are the backstop.
Not everything goes.
Thank goodness.
Because the end result patently would not be free speech; it’d be the exact opposite. It would, in certain fact, be the end of this community, and the end of the ability to talk about Q online.
To deny that is to deny reality.
IMO, when someone's opening Salvo is ad homeium attacks on a question or a well thought response citing different sources of information, that you've gathered from your own research, then that person isn't being respectful. People come here wanting to learn. Its OK if they disagree, or have conflicting information. Have a discussion. Check their comment history. Consider their arguments. Look at their sources. Share your sources.
No doubt. I have no problem with the idea of being respectful. Everyone should be respectful. Its just the matter of forcing people to do something. They should do it because its right, and because people will shun them for doing wrong, not because they are forced into submission.