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You can bring up sad and negative topics without being an asshole. That means you are being nice.

For example, you are not nice if you say:

trumptards do x,y

You are nice if you say:

x,y is not good in my opinion, because (list of arguments without resulting to offensive stuff)



Certainly, in decades of commenting you'll never find a comment where I call someone a foul name.

...but we're just hoping at this point that they use your definition of "nice" and not the version I gave where having "bad" opinions is "abuse".


I know what you mean.

I had this issue before. I was complaining about a product on a forum and was a bit annoyed because it was expensive and did not work properly. I didn't call them names, but it was obvious in my tone that I was dissatisfied. Sadly, the moderators on that forum called it "trolling" and I got banned. Those moderators sadly also made money through the company I complained about since the forum is linked to the store.

So yeah. I can see what you mean.


I think the broader point is that (pseudo-)legislating politeness is bad policy.




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