Timeline for This Is Fine is fine
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| Aug 28, 2017 at 21:00 | comment | added | badp Mod | @GodEmperorDune part of what made politics explode on the bridge was that politics was actively happening to us. What comes first, the fact that it's politics of the fact that they're happening to one of the social circles/groups/minorities that we already represent, everything else be damned? I'm afraid that on this one I have more questions than answers, or I'd have posted an answer. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 20:54 | comment | added | GodEmperorDune | @badp the VICE documentary on the charlottesville white supremacist rally has just as many stars as the canadian X gender passport news. But starred posts may not be as good an indicator as the number of overall messages on each topic. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 20:47 | comment | added | badp Mod | @GodEmperorDune The top starred news on TIF are good news, like the one about Canadian passports allowing an "X" for gender. Hardly "bad feels" news. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 20:35 | comment | added | GodEmperorDune | @badp could you elaborate more on how the split becomes a gag order? How do we balance your concerns with the needs of those that still want to chat in the bridge but don't want to deal with heavy topics repeatedly overwhelming the room? | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 20:23 | comment | added | GodEmperorDune | I'm not sure why this is so heavily downvoted. The "This Is Fine" room has been doom and gloom (with some bits of gallows humor thrown in) since it started. Everything I've heard about the motivations behind the new room was to split out the "the world is a mess right now" commiserating because it was overwhelming other discussions in The Bridge. Splitting it based on good feels/bad feels seems to match what is happening currently and it is working so far. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 13:22 | comment | added | Nzall | @MBraedley Those would still be appropriate for The Bridge, because those things are mainly posted because people want to laugh about them, not moan about them. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 13:19 | comment | added | Nzall | @badp I don't like the TB/TIF split either, but we originally wanted to do the split because of all the "shitty X" news that was posted in The Bridge and how it was making some people no longer want to visit. I'd say that if we want to get those people back, we need to keep the "shitty X" news out of the Bridge. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 13:17 | comment | added | MBraedley | I agree with @badp. News about Florida Man was frequent in The Bridge, as were other "why would you do this?" news articles. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 13:14 | comment | added | badp Mod | In fact, my main concern is that this split effectively becomes a gag order on those affected to put up (take it to the Eternal Trump Presidency Hellfire Central) or shut up. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 13:09 | comment | added | badp Mod | The second paragraph is just not true. We've never shied away from talking politics or religion or sexuality or identity or philosophy. It's just that the realities of the current year make it very hard to ignore current happenings and they way they affect us, even personally. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 13:03 | history | answered | Nzall | CC BY-SA 3.0 |