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So the Ad Hominem button is a virtue signal?
Would it be fair to say anyone that uses it, is virtue signalling again?
So the Ad Hominem button is a virtue signal?
Would it be fair to say anyone that uses it, is virtue signalling again?
The only virtue it signals is the ability to attack the point and not the person.
But you can say the most ridiculous politically incorrect things and they will not be classified as Ad Hominem. Try it!
Can I still rant about the shitbirds, without singling a single asshole out?
Remember -- any point that a user makes is fair game.
Their personal qualities are not fair game, because they are irrelevant to the point being made.
The Red Pill on Reddit has a good rule: Do not insult or harass members
That's pretty much what I mean by ad hominem.
What if JaNE is arguing that she is more of an ignorant slut then she is being credited for?
So "Jane, you ignorant slut." is out of bounds.
But whatever point Jane is making is fair game for attack.
Well played.
APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says
Of course, mine is one of the very few 100% civility scores!
Amazing but true!
What became of this, btw?
I'd say at this point what patnet needs more is a did some research first score. People who don't maintain a minimum threshold by providing citations, or demonstrating strong reasoning skills, and instead spend all their time spouting opinion have their comments hidden or de-ranked, requiring users to perform an additional interaction to show their noise(clicking a show opinions button).
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Civil comments are simply those that are reasonably polite.
If a comment does attack another user's character, personality, or other attribute of the user making an argument, use the "uncivil" link to flag it. It will go into comment jail. Anyone can view comment jail.
The user can edit the jailed comment, and Patrick will get notified of the edit, and then perhaps liberate it back to the thread it came from, also restoring the user's lost civility point automatically.
Eventually I'm going to let the most civil users liberate comments from jail so I don't have to be the judge.
#civility #patnet