One of the biggest problems, especially online, is that people tend to do this inefficiently, either spending half an hour writing out a reasonably well-formed reply or throwing a slogan out in a few seconds. The Internet begs for us to use links to FAQs and other resources, and socialists have been writing FAQ pamphlets for hundreds of years so there’s no shortage of them. There’s a famous anarchist FAQ floating around, and ProleWiki and Leftypedia, Dessalines (lemmy.ml) FAQs and more. Using them can be the difference between a community staying friendly and welcoming, or burning out from answering the same question every day until you hate it. Just ask FOSS chatrooms.
if it’s a sincere ignorant question, they can get a well-writen, detailed explanation and links to further reading
if it’s a troll or a debate pervert, you only spent ten seconds on them
Innuendo Studios’s The Alt-Right Playbook should be absolutely mandatory reading for anyone who is planning on arguing about politics on the internet. There are some missing things simply because it came about in an earlier internet-arguing generation, but everything in there is crucially vital and still accurate, and it hits most of what in my opinion people should be thinking about if they care about convincing others of political things on the internet.
typing out an answer is human though. i’m particularly way less likely to read something someone wants me to when it’s thrown out to me lazily. or worse, angrily.
that said i might fully read that faq, maybe i like it and it can help me not having to think every single time. do you happen to have the link?
One of the biggest problems, especially online, is that people tend to do this inefficiently, either spending half an hour writing out a reasonably well-formed reply or throwing a slogan out in a few seconds. The Internet begs for us to use links to FAQs and other resources, and socialists have been writing FAQ pamphlets for hundreds of years so there’s no shortage of them. There’s a famous anarchist FAQ floating around, and ProleWiki and Leftypedia, Dessalines (lemmy.ml) FAQs and more. Using them can be the difference between a community staying friendly and welcoming, or burning out from answering the same question every day until you hate it. Just ask FOSS chatrooms.
Innuendo Studios’s The Alt-Right Playbook should be absolutely mandatory reading for anyone who is planning on arguing about politics on the internet. There are some missing things simply because it came about in an earlier internet-arguing generation, but everything in there is crucially vital and still accurate, and it hits most of what in my opinion people should be thinking about if they care about convincing others of political things on the internet.
reminder there’s a couple of “new” ones if you watched it long ago. it’s worth revisiting.
typing out an answer is human though. i’m particularly way less likely to read something someone wants me to when it’s thrown out to me lazily. or worse, angrily.
that said i might fully read that faq, maybe i like it and it can help me not having to think every single time. do you happen to have the link?
The Dessalines ones? https://dessalines.github.io/essays/
yes, ty