A recurring temptation I have on this webbed site is that whenever I see enough posts on my timeline about some #cohost_meta adjacent stuff, I'm always tempted to post an opposing opinion as a joke.
e.g. I see "Your not obligated to follow anybody on this site." --> I wanna say "Actually, if you're on this site, you're required to follow me. Don't like it? Tough luck, bozo."
Thank you for your understanding as I attempt to only make Good Posts.
okay. I made the mistake of catching up with the latest discourse, and my main takeaway here is that we got a downward, vicious cycle regarding the quality of discourse on the #cohost_meta tag:
- Somebody makes a legitimate but esoteric complaint about the site or site culture.
- A bunch of people don't Get It.
- Any hopes at having a constructive conversation get dashed.
- People mute the #cohost_meta tag because they're fed up with it.
- The next time point 1 happens again things repeat because the people most likely to contribute constructively to the conversation have muted the tag already. (This is a pretty big guess on my part.)
This is my read on the meta-meta situation at least. I didn't read all the comments on the current meta that closely (mostly for the sake of my own sanity).