Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: New policy discussion regarding individual and group insults [View all]rrneck
(17,671 posts)as the overall attitude that anyone who owns a gun is an NRA/right wing troll. Bringing such an attitude here should get you a "time out".
I understand that guns are unpopular here, and that's just fine. And I realize that jury decisions will overwhelmingly favor the self appointed scolds and zampolits hereabouts. But I hate to see a few petty, egotistical mandarins use this group as a whipping boy to build partisan cred for use elsewhere on this site. Let them build their posse elsewhere.
On balance, if the hosts can use the blocking feature to enforce civility here (without making a career of it), that would be fine. But if the number of blocked members starts to look like HoF, it's not worth it. The truth is that the gungeon is probably unpopular for three reasons: 1) Lots of members here are gun owners and don't feel like fighting about it. 2) Lots of members here are agnostic on the subject and don't want to fight about it. 3) Some members have tried to fight about it and got tired of having their asses handed to them. For the most part the only anti gun members left willing to post here are whining scolds, preening attention whores, political neophytes, amateur social dominators, and the occasional left wing troll.
If you block someone from using the wrong word they'll just find another word. The real problem is that this group is a prime target for chickenshit left wing trolling Because it's an easy target on a progressive site. And blocking them could turn it into an echo chamber, which I think would be worse.