I think we should try to be more careful, not to automatically assume that everyone who is asking questions here about China/Ukraine etc. is always arguing in bad faith. I’ve seen multiple people who were genuinely trying to ask something here and the only response they got was mockery.

I do understand that a lot of times people who come here are trying to troll or just be annoying, but we still should try to engage in them in good faith as long as there is no reason not to do so. Not everyone who isn’t from Lemmygrad is someone hostile to our ideology, and we should try to be kinder to them.

  • Prologue7642OPEnglish
    122·
    11 months ago

    Most of the time yes, but from time to time I see someone post something and the only comments they get are pretty hostile. Even if later it turns out they were just genuinely asking questions and even admitted to doing so. I think this just pushes some people away, that we could educate instead.

    Of course then there are troll etc. which are different story.

    • ImOnADietEnglish
      201·
      11 months ago

      we aren’t perfect, I’m sure we do pop off too hard on new people sometimes, but I read through almost every post made here and I don’t actually see it very often, even that one comment you linked wasn’t too bad, he got a meme and one sarcastic comment, and then someone actually engaging. It’s not like we told him to face the wall or anything

      • Prologue7642OPEnglish
        102·
        11 months ago

        I agree that is not a huge problem and yes it is mostly not so harmful. I was not trying to suggest with this post that we are super terrible etc. Mostly I just wanted to say that I think we could be a bit better. In my opinion, these people are the prime target for educating. Overall, from what I’ve seen Lemmygrad has a pretty bad reputation on most Lemmy instances so if someone ventures here and is not a troll, I think we should try to be kind to them.

        • ImOnADietEnglish
          211·
          11 months ago

          we have a bad reputation because we’re socialists, were the most active instance for a long time, and are still relatively more active for our size. The biggest complaint is that we’re “evil tankies”, not that we’re rude

          • Prologue7642OPEnglish
            52·
            11 months ago

            I agree, what I wanted to say with that is that if someone from other lemmy instances come here even with our reputation, there is a good chance that it is someone who is actually interested in what we have to say.

            • ImOnADietEnglish
              101·
              11 months ago

              most of it is them not paying attention to the instance they’re in