>>280558310This is an issue but it's a damned if you do and damned if you don't scenario.
If you point it out, then people accuse you of being political and pushing an agenda, which is technically true, but so are the people wanting to change the nature of the hobby. I don't advocate for brigading either way, I just wish things would get better and more stable IRL so all the shit didn't run off here.
>>280558344I agree but honestly the only thing that can help is mods banning bad faith posts. A problem is that some people want to completely ignore that the tone and nature of this stuff is changing (not for the better in 90% of cases), and they are right to complain that there is more political shit flinging happening, but we've seen time and time again what happens when you ignore it with other hobbies. It's a tough situation because brigading about it lowers quality of discussion and runs the risk of off topic, but ignoring it means the problem spreads and people just refuse to address it more.
I think only things getting better will fix discussion here, we are in a period of cultural decline where society hasn't really progressed but regressed in many areas and people are more interested in getting moral highs from supporting some unsustainable policies than actually addressing things that matter, and that pessimism, moral high grounding, and very hedonistic cultural decline is leaking into all sorts of places it wouldn't if things were more stable.