MM - But knowing the difference...
Agreed - which is why that post was apparently (and properly IMO) moderated out of existence, just like the one before it. What is good for the nene goose is good for the nene gander.
Obviously there is a game going on where people try to toe or push the line and bait someone over it to get their response deleted or possibly get someone banned. If the moderator is concerned about this behavior they can always reach out to these folks privately and issue some warnings, or the mod might just want the job security (UHERO is forecasting a mild recession for Hawai'i this year) and prefers to keep playing whack-a-mongooose - that's their call, and (happily) not mine.
While you and I might be able to have a civil and rational discussion over differences, many users are clearly not interested, and have some adze to grind. There seems to be widespread signs of info and cognitive fatigue, which is part of the national flood-the-zone plan, and so anything more than a one-liner or even slightly acknowledging the wider world is just too exhausting to parse and makes people prone to lash out. Hopefully, "cool heads, warm hearts" will win out, both on Punaweb and more widely irl, but it might also just be a time of Kū, the god of politics and war.
Agreed - which is why that post was apparently (and properly IMO) moderated out of existence, just like the one before it. What is good for the nene goose is good for the nene gander.
Obviously there is a game going on where people try to toe or push the line and bait someone over it to get their response deleted or possibly get someone banned. If the moderator is concerned about this behavior they can always reach out to these folks privately and issue some warnings, or the mod might just want the job security (UHERO is forecasting a mild recession for Hawai'i this year) and prefers to keep playing whack-a-mongooose - that's their call, and (happily) not mine.
While you and I might be able to have a civil and rational discussion over differences, many users are clearly not interested, and have some adze to grind. There seems to be widespread signs of info and cognitive fatigue, which is part of the national flood-the-zone plan, and so anything more than a one-liner or even slightly acknowledging the wider world is just too exhausting to parse and makes people prone to lash out. Hopefully, "cool heads, warm hearts" will win out, both on Punaweb and more widely irl, but it might also just be a time of Kū, the god of politics and war.