A few days ago I made a post to gauge this community’s opinion on whether it should allow nice comics by bigoted artists. I think we have a consensus.
The majority of comments were very in support of banning comics by artists like Stonetoss and Jago. I heard from queer people who said they’d feel safer if the rules were changed. A lot of people were concerned about this community becoming a “Nazi bar”, the comment expressing that feeling got a LOT of upvotes.
The people against the change had two main arguments: anti-censorship, and personal responsibility. A few people equated active moderation practices with book burning. Nearly all of these “against” comments were downvoted or ratiod, and tended to have a lot of arguments underneath them, while the “pro” comments went uncontested.
On the internet, 10% of people will disagree with just about anything. With that in mind, I think we’ve reached a consensus. The community wants a rule change so that users can’t post inoffensive comics by bigoted artists.
That means no more Jago comics. I see a lot of people in the comments under the Jago posts, getting angry and saying they want this rule change. People aren’t happy with the user who’s posting all the Jago comics.
Mods, this is what we want. Please change the rules and get Jago’s comics outta here.
I had an argument with the user posting the Jago comics, and I have two things to add here:
Even when many users presumably blocked them, there’s still a lot more downvotes than upvotes on most of the Jago comics they posts. Thus it’s actually a majority, if there isn’t something I overlooked.
If we asume that a) majority of people don’t like these comics and b) they will all eventually block them, it will be really bad for any new user. What will any average new user see is a bunch of comics they don’t like, with almost only upvotes (since users who blocked the poster don’t downvote it)
I think that’s gonna drive new users away, and it’s a reason why I wouldn’t promote Lemmy to my friends for example.