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I'm just middle aged and lost all energy for unproductive discussions. The second another poster posts something genuinely hostile, like "touch grass" kinda shit, I'm just done talking. Also if we're six comments in and the other guy won't even admit to being wrong to the thing he said on comment one, despite me doing twenty minutes of research to prove conclusively that he's wrong, I don't want to waste another second of my life on him.

I gotta have 10% of the "disengage" comments on this site.

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[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Hot take, I think the "disengage" rule is good but I don't like the way we do it.

Saying "disengage" sounds like your commanding someone to disengage, which comes off as a final "fuck you!" It's basically a mod enforced way to have the last word. If we instead said "I'm disengaging" or "i want to cease this convo", idk something that had more to a tinge of humility to it I think it could come off better.

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There's also the issue where someone will write a multi paragraph response then add disengage at the end to ger the last word in

There was a post a while ago where mods were saying not to do that but it isn't enforced

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

I've got someone banned for not respecting proper disengage etiquette, so it's definitely enforced when reported.

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