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Title: Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings is Utterly Awful
Article: Look at me. Look at me. Hey, Internet, over here. I said something controversial. Pay attention to me.
Right. When people say "don't feed trolls," this is the contrarian bait they're talking about. Not assholes and bigots.
Well yes, but don't feed assholes and bigots either.
Calling out bigots and assholes isn't "feeding." That's the problem. Telling people to ignore outright bastards just leads the bastards to escalate. You should absolutely identify their bullshit and bluntly tell them where to shove it - and more importantly, forums need to allow calling out bullshit.
Any moderator demanding "respect" and "civility" is creating an environment where cautious monsters have free reign, unless they also proactively fight politely-phrased abuse. If someone has good reason to say "fuck off," and you remove the response but not the cause, you are a force multiplier for that abuse.
But this schmuck? Yeah, ignore that. It is of low quality.
That's a bit mean. Why aren't people allowed to have genuinely held opinions anymore? Why is everyone who disagrees with you faking?
That tone of arrogant superiority is why. This is clearly rage baiting, it would have made it to the second sentence without insulting its potential audience if it wasn't.
Maybe the author is just really upset and feels the need to be mean about it. I don't see the need to be mean back, condescension in an article never hurt anyone.
It's literally rage bait
I don't believe rage bait is this common. There's no evidence for this conspiracy theory that the author is hiding anything.
Why else would he be writing about a movie that came out twenty years ago?
Might as well write an article about how shitty you think Lawrence of Arabia is.
We are on a sublemmy devoted to a 20 year old movie. People still watch LOTR.
The trick is this to have genuinely held opinions without publishing poorly written articles about it. I do that all the time, and I can warmly recommend others to try it, too!
I think talking about one's opinions is human nature and it's pointless to oppose it.
Calling people who disagree with you misguided when it comes to purely matter of tastes is not just talking about one's opinion, but is in fact insulting other people for no reason. So fuck the author of this particular article.
Well, I think it's funny. I appreciate an author who has style and passion, it keeps me invested. It's not like anyone's opinion of the lord of the rings matters, so I couldn't possibly be offended no matter what I thought of the movies.
Not every opinion is worth sharing. Even if you do, talking annoys only one person, whereas publishing articles online annoys the whole world.
I don't think every article ever published is read by the whole world. I think most of them are read by about as many people as the average Lemmy post
You do get the difference between talking and publishing though, right? And the fact that not all opinions are worth sharing? The "whole world" was a figure of speech.
Some of these websites are so simple that publishing an article takes as much effort as posting a Lemmy comment. There used to be a difference, but there isn't anymore.