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
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
Lemmy has a strong hive mentality.
Many long said that we need to address it. But it's not currently clear as of how.
Yeah folks on Lemmy want you to believe we are above at that but man people can be nasty here
Where?
Everywhere. Just look for anything that goes against (even slightly) the leftist perspective, such as:
- anything critical of trans people competing in sports - a lot of those policies are bigoted, but there are legitimate concerns
- evidence that the economy is not as bad as people claim - e.g. cars aren't more expensive today than they used to be, bottom of the market cars are about the same price as they were 20 years ago, after accounting for inflation (they're actually a little cheaper in many cases, and have way more tech)
- arguments criticizing Biden/Democrats
- anything anti-socialist
And so on. The quality of the argument doesn't matter, what matters is that it doesn't fit the leftist agenda, so it gets downvoted like crazy.
Go ahead, try playing devil's advocate sometime (and don't say the equivalent of "I'm a leftist, but...") and cite your sources and see how well your post does vs comments that ignore facts and spout common leftist rhetoric, the lower effort post will get more votes and yours will probably go negative.
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