They will do it so long as not doing it greatly increases the amount of busywork, spam moderation and troll moderation.

Then they are unfit to be moderators because they are subtracting value from free discussions. I would much rather have to little moderation than lazy heavy handed moderation.

Hey, I’ve got unpopular opinions. No, it’s usually someone who is trolling.

A lot of people can’t tell the difference and just assume that someone with an unpopular opinion must be trolling.

If/when it does get big enough, what would be a good solution?

The best solution is to do nothing and don’t try to bring reddit’s groupthink enforcement flaws to lemmy.

Unpopular opinions deserve to be silenced? Terrible idea. We already have way too much group think.

One of the things I miss about reddit (and slashdot before that) was that if you got downvoted/downmodded a lot in a short amount of time, it would tell you to slow down

That was a horrible system. If you didn’t get positive karma on your very first post, your account was ruined because you could never dig yourself out.

It’s not about being elitist.

What’s the difference? They shouldn’t be doing it.

when is the last time you came across a post on Lemmy that is specifically for/about women or women’s issues

The same amount of time I came across a post that is about men’s issues. A really long time. The vast majority of comments should not be about identity politics, unless it is a feature of the specific community.

Does that feel good?

I just want the absolute value of my comment’s karma to be high. That means it has been read at least that many times.

“bad actors” simply means “unpopular or politically incorrect opinions”. Fuck that.

You mean the exact same stuff that’s on Reddit, often copied directly from Reddit?

No. We mean all the stuff that Lemmy gets that Reddit either doesn’t get at all or gets a day later than Lemmy.

“Trump bad! Look at this latest bad thing Elong did!” posts a day is not quality content

This bad thing that Trump did looks like very worthwhile content.

https://lemmy.world/post/26990437

Give it another year or two and we’ll have some website that tallies the karma of lemmy users. Clout is an insidious disease that grows like a social cancer.

It has already happened with this piece of cancer.

https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

Find people who have low karma

When someone is consistently getting downvoted it’s likely they are a problem. PieFed provides a list of accounts with low karma, sorted by lowest first. Clicking on their user name takes you to their profile which shows all their posts and comments in one place. Every profile has “Ban” and “Ban + Purge” buttons that have instance-wide effects and are only visible to admins.

literally a fiction book

Literally a 100% history book. 2000 pages of specific details. And literally nobody in the Soviet government ever claimed any of it was not 100% correct.

That first link is pure cold warrior nonsense

Lenin and Stalin did more harm to socialism than any other people in the entire history of mankind. You are a 20th century fossil. Soviet genocide are well documented facts. Here you go…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X97000111

https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2010/09/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/ezpp8k/how_many_people_did_stalin_actually_kill/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/how-many-people-did-stalin-kill

https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/The-U-S-S-R-from-the-death-of-Lenin-to-the-death-of-Stalin

I’m not the one pushing GOP or FSB propaganda here.

The point is that the GOP promised “smaller government” and delivered a big government proliferation of victimless crimes. Where do you think they got that con job propaganda from? Lenin did exactly the same thing but on an even bigger scale.

You mean the French and Russians didn’t have slavery before their revolutions. But the Bolsheviks killed millions. And they established slave labor camps for decades.

[Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917]

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE4.HTM

And in the French revolution, just a handful of people caused thousands of executions.

https://www.worldhistory.org/Reign_of_Terror/

[This led to the enactment of the Law of Suspects, which allowed for the arrests of between 300,000 and half a million citizens nationwide. 16,594 of these ‘suspects’ were formally executed after a trial, while around 10,000 died in prison, and thousands more were killed in various massacres staged across France. It is estimated that the total death toll during the ten-month Reign of Terror rests anywhere between 30-50,000.]

Did you really think I couldn’t back up my statement with facts? How is the Reign of Terror in France and the mass genocide in the USSR in any way “equivalent” to the American and Haitian revolutions?

They were established 4+ years ago just to cause the dnc to lose an election in 2024?

The DNC did not lose. We are the losers. You and me will feel the impact way more than well to do politicians.

However, every revolution, Russian, French, Haitian, United States, etc. used violence and murder to achieve its goal.

This is a ridiculous false equivalence.

Leninism is called that because it literally isn’t communism. Otherwise they’d just call it communism.

They actually do just call it Communism. Few people call it Leninism.

Communism is stateless

This is propaganda comparable to the GOP wanting “smaller government” rather than authoritarian Fascism.

I know plenty of genuinely amazing coders who have no idea how an operating system

Such a person cannot be an “amazing coder”.