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Getting mad at each other is not nice behavior. There are times in which anger is warranted and times in which you can still be nice but hostile (we have a zero tolerance policy for intolerance, if you tell a Nazi to fuck off we aren’t about to step in and tone police and tell you to be nice), but we would encourage you to instead report any comments like this so we can keep intolerant individuals off our platform.
How do we have civil discussions among different viewpoints.
The key here is mostly being nice. Assume good faith. If the person is acting in bad faith, do your best not to engage and just report the person. Past that point it’s all a matter of how good your communication skills are, and this might be a good place to practice them while keeping things nice.
I just worry that there will come a point when beehaw has too many users for that to work. If we had 1/8 of reddit’s users there’s still a good chance it would turn into a violent place. Would beehaw limit growth at a certain point?
That’s the magic of federation: I hope beehaw would consider closing registration when getting to a certain size that makes moderation harder, allowing for another server to be “the new beehaw” and so on to have a galaxy of easily moderated instances that federate together.
