Not saying the OP was banned fairly, but to do the devil's advocate, there's people with PHD in biology or medicine who still don't believe in Evolution. You can always find idiots with PHDs, even in their chosen fields.
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I'll go ahead and say OP was probably banned fairly, judging solely by the fact that he willingly posts threads on 4chan
Anon probably used slurs and got banned for that
As someone with over a hundred banned reddit accounts, you generally don't get banned for disagreeing. So maybe not slurs, but maybe just general rude language. Or my personal favorite, bothering the mods.
Unless he's Richard Dawkins, people do get banned if they argue about biological sex.
Especially back in 2020 long before the API changes caused the largest wave of migration of intellectuals away from reddit.
Where have they moved to?
You best start believing in ghost stories, You're In One.
Something like 1/5 of pharmacists believe homeopathy works. How the fuck can you go through that training and still believe in a hyperdilution that's magic if you shake it the right way and never ever touch it with your fingers because that takes the magic away?
(For those who are unfamiliar I'm not even being facetious, this is what homeopaths actually believe)
Placebo effect is powerful. They probably have lots of people saying X really helped with their cold/pain/cough/whatever.
I have no idea about homeopathy, but you used the word “facetious” so you must be very smart and I believe everything you say.
There's some amount of people who believe homeopathy is the same thing as essential oils and herbs, and have no idea about the hyperdilution stuff somehow. Granted, that's not much better, but there's at least a realm of slight possibility that you might get useful effects from those, as opposed to literal water with extra steps and flavoring added to make it taste vaguely medicinal.
We're also talking about people who should absolutely know better regardless so maybe that offers far too much credibility to them.
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The same happened to me on Lemmy. I brought evidence, they brought anecdotes, and I was the "loser" of the discussion according to the hive
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It could also be about your tone. People will downvote you just because you sound like an asshole.
Yes, effective communication strategies are a vital and required skill set for the most learned among us. It is the duty of the rational to communicate knowledge and understanding to the irrational. They certainly can't do it themselves.
be me
go to reddit
lie about my credentials
start a fight
eventually just start insulting everyone
"Y GOT B&???!!!"
scurry back to racism and CP board
complain
Op probably does not have a PHD. He posted a stupid opinion and got down voted for it, and ran to 4chan because he was sad.
Everyone on 4chan has a PHD and a active social life.
Reddit is great for watching communities being radicalized. Wehther they do it themselves or they get a psyops push is up to everyone's guess but I've watched it several times.
SRS: Started out as a community pointing out misoginy and racism, ended up as a very weird hate group. I didn't watch it that closely, only saw the result.
some tumbler centered sub i followed, I forgot the name: same story, started quite light hearted, making fun of stupid shit said by kids on tumbler, turned into a right wing hategroup. This one I witnessed. They ran out of material quick, started posting lame shit but now they gave it their own, made up context in the comments. After a while, people who pointed out obvious satire got downvoted.
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I left Reddit after the fuck spez debacle and haven't looked back. I occasionally go to reddit through Google for some specific things. But I don't log in or engage in the content besides reading what I was looking for. And I use my ad blocker so that dickward spez doesn't get anything from me.
But yeah I suppose this is more about mods. They think they have so much power at the end of they day it's a fucking forum, that is not much power.
This is why Quora is so sanitized unlike Reddit: you actually get to see the (alleged) qualification of the OP. I'm not saying this would get to be an appeal to authority, but blatantly contradicting the expert while you're none of it wouldn't be so easy to get away with in the other forums
Bro Quora is the most blatantly wrong and idiotic site on the internet
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