raevynpheather wrote:I'm not asking woot to censor all dissent. I'm asking woot to remove posts that contain hate and attacking comments. Call it censoring if you want, but this world could do with a little less hatred, of which this site has more than its fair share.
A lot of what people generalize as "hate" are comments rooted in a context that makes them less hateful and more general voicing of displeasure. I think woot does a decent job of deleting baseless attacks, and the ones they leave up have (if you do some research) plenty of reasoning behind them. They are less "hate" than they are an extension of a long, long series of critiques that grew weary over time.
I think a good place to start would be for people to stop generalizing so many posts as "hate", as for the most part they are not rooted in genuine hatred for anyone. Even a lot of the harsh ones need to be taken in their context.