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What can I say, I’ve seen it. A prime example was seeing how the comments on a once-great site - Boing Boing - devolved over the course of the years. In the years before comments were taken behind a paywall, it had become a total shitshow of liberal and leftist absurdity. And the mods, who often were also commenters, were fully in on it. No dissent of any kind allowed. Oppression olympics and “intersectional” one-up-manship (or should I say one-up-being-ship; wouldn’t want to “center” the humans or most definitely not the men too much) was on overdrive. Which is a real tragedy given how fun the comment section used to be before all the buzzkills moved in and took up residence (and mod privs). In some cases, they were pile-driving on Mark Frauenfelder, one of the founders and owners. Want to guess what some of the reasons were?

Anyway, no more happy mutants were allowed, unless maybe they ticked a sufficient set of boxes, and even then, you got more points I guess if you were angry and embittered and could use all that toxicity to dump and ban/mute anyone that differed from your opinion even one iota…all of this brought to you by absurd extreme fringe liberals/leftists - oh and they would get extremely upset if someone were to call any of them “liberals”, lol.

Anyway, no idea if the owners of the site did anything to clean up the situation when they took it behind a paywall to comment. Ironically, they ran to the impure Substack to host their comments and I don’t think you can even view them w/o paying. Something I am definitely not doing if it helps fund assholish gatekeepers like the little clique running the comment section beforehand…

I think anyone that says they haven’t seen it is either happily offline and stays away from the ridiculous examples of liberals in their day-to-day IRL, or, more likely, is kidding themselves. Boing Boing is hardly the only example where I’ve seen this; it’s just there that I saw the most extreme example of it since the mods were 100% on board with it, apparently. Anyway, a total tragedy since I’m old enough to remember when Boing Boing was fun…