That’s it. Our instance requires us to stop responding if you explicitly ask us to. It’s right here buried in our Code of Conduct

Any discussions may be opted out of by disengaging.

In the past, this rule has only applied to the specific user you say it to. I’d like to suggest going forward that if someone on another instance uses it, we treat it as applying to all of us.

Unfortunately this rule wasn’t communicated clearly before, so I’m making this post for visibility.

Edit: As the comments clarify, this has to be done in good faith, typically just a one word “disengage” comment. If you add more stuff to the discussion and then say “disengage” at the end, you’re not disengaging, it’s a way to put a stop to a toxic argument not to get the last word in.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    You’re acting like libs will actually read the rules before engaging though.

    And the debate pervert types would never use a “stop talking to me now” option. They live off of the attention they get for being obnoxious.

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        1 year ago

        That’s why we have moderators I guess, instead of just bots that automatically ban people for rule breaking. It has to be a case-by-case thing most of the time.

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      You’re acting like libs will actually read the rules before engaging though.

      I suppose that’s true, but I was replying to the world OP had conjured where we would somehow make them privy to this information routinely, or however they pictured it. I guess I wasn’t really focused on how they intended to implement an idea I disagreed with, tbh.