I really enjoy the open discussion about the new dev funding proposal (which I personally find, at least in this form, not to be so good of an idea), but it always bugs me how some of you guys preffer to just call anyone you disagree with a troll and immiedietly assume he/she is part of a new "attack of BCH", instead of at least trying to engage in a civilized discussion first.
Sure, some people you disagree with may post from new accounts and have shitty karma, but they often still have some valid arguments. Calling them "trolls" does not refute them, it just makes it look like they cannot be reasonably countered, that's why you fallback to name-calling, generalizing and trying to divide the community into the "good guys" (those that agree with you) and the trolls/attackers.
It's funny because sometimes the same people who practice this "troll-labeling" and reject the opportunity to have any open discussion at all, also act as if they value and defend it. That's not how you do it. Trying to silence valid arguments by de-humanizing people who present them and acting as if discussion with them "does not make any sense anyway" (before even trying!) is almost as bad as censorship itself. It's just one little step before you say: "Let's just ban all those people who push this agenda, since they obviously are just trolling and bring nothing of value to this sub". Maybe you'd even do it if you had the power to...
I think such behavior does not get enough opposition here and too often people try to justify it, sometimes using examples of some actual trolling that happend in the past. Let's stop confusing valid opposition with trolling.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/eulfnt/oh_look_another_troll/
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