Good idea... we could link to our community guidelines.

I admit that "cognitive liberty" is not widely known but it related to having the ability to even THINK of things that are the basis of discovering truth. There is a push to get groups to not doubt a political dogma in their mind - to not teach critical reasoning skills or be conditioned to be timid. It's similar to training a chain-tied young elephant that they can't break free... and then using a simple rope later when it grows up. The elephant won't even THINK they have the ability to break free.

Agree! Terms like “cognitive liberty” are empty and colourless.

@Admin
I understood what you meant by it and agree with the need to think critically. We used to just call that "critical thinking skills". "Cognitive liberty" is just a bit wierd sounding. It isn't yet commonly used jargon and I kinda doubt it will be. Just my opinion, trying to consider what others might think when reading it for the first time.

Not bad... though my concern is that the 60% of the visitors who don't know of the IDW (or even these famous thinkers) might have to get past the hurdle to read the second sentence.

COPIED FROM BELOW: I admit that "cognitive liberty" is not widely known but it related to having the ability to even THINK of things that are the basis of discovering truth. There is a push to get groups to not doubt a political dogma in their mind - to not teach critical reasoning skills or be conditioned to be timid. It's similar to training a chain-tied young elephant that they can't break free... and then using a simple rope later when it grows up. The elephant won't even THINK they have the ability to break free.

@Admin seriously, if they don’t know about the intellectual dark web, Peterson, Rogan and Shapiro, we may have to suggest Pinterest!
(Only half-joking)

there is something wrong with all the fandom in the advertizing and a few of those pages essentially have become youtube playlists and nothing else.

i would rather have a transcription verbatum than a video. videos neuter the mind.

@Admin cognitive is too limiting an adjective. There is physical liberty too. Understand what you are trying to do, but please widen the aperture.

@mccarthy makes sense for sure.

I like the Simplicity of that. I also think its important to avoid intellectual jargon

Writing and posting an original article is great. But posting a significant article or meme that others probably haven't seen is often just as good or even better. That only starts the conversation. The comments are often as valuable or possibly moreso than the posts.

@Clarken a bot can start a conversation. it is just a form of catfishing that would rarely fly as the title with any factual weight. it is just a way to drive traffic. it is a lazy way to start a conversation.

if i am here to converse, but i have to play hot-potato with a 15 minute video. you just got me to waste 15 minutes on another site to come back and respond "so?" or "yep" and the o.p. just nullified the conversation because no conjecture is made.

i hate to point it out, the new posts feed is really just a traffic hub steering people away from the site. it started real heavily last april, in "my" recollection.

it may be just a way to get level ups.

@CuriousFury
I appreciate you pointing that out. You've been with the IDW a lot longer than I have.

But the more intuitive way to use it is simply watching as new articles are posted. Then if you have certain interests, you segue into those groups, members, topics, and such. Right or wrong, been my experience.

Getting "level up" seems to be an incentive built into the IDW to get and keep people interested. Once they're hooked, they will navigate the system however they choose that best fits their interests.

@Clarken yeah, i have used discussion forums before. i almost agree with you, but it doesnt make sense to continually drive traffic away from the site unless that is the oroginal posters purpose.literally drivin people away to spend time on other websites.

@CuriousFury
Each individual has their personal preferences of what they want to spend their time on. There's so much there that each person can pick and choose or disregard posts. I don't think you're gonna be able to coerce people into doing it your way or no way.

I personally like someone to give a little comment at the beginning of the post that indicates the topic and why it's important. Then I may or may not procede based on first impressions. Failing the quick synopsis, I may still check the link they provided and either continue reading/watching or go ahead and exit out of lack of interest. I also personally like an occasional video. Normally short is best. If it's long, it better be good on an important topic.

Obviously that's different than how you see it. From what I've seen, to each their own - make a comment, suggestion, agree, disagree, or just live and let live.

@CuriousFury
It doesn't drive me away. I read an article or view a video, then I go back to where I was and make a comment or find another post to look at. It keeps me coming back.

I do personally prefer to see the text within the post itself. But putting the source link is important for attribution and later reference or more text/info.

I understand some people just find it easier and quicker to only put the link. I ran into that yesterday and suggested to the fella that posted it that it would be helpful to have a little information what the linked article was about written in the post itself. He nicely explained he had grandkids around and just wanted to get it out. I understood. And the article was actually very good. Each person has their rationale.

Probably would be good to make suggestions in the community guidelines - suggestions not rules.

@Clarken i am no different than you. it is just this site was not a facebook clone not that long ago, but now it is facebook with strangers.

it is sad.

not my website. so it is not myway or the highway.

just trying to point out where the breakdown seems to be happening, as soon as the app launced , it seems.

it went from people offering proposals to topics and inviting alternate thoughts to people direct sharing and bitching about censorship and media bias by posting media posts about media censorship. that behavior went on long enough t ok drive out the conversationalists and augment the expexted behavior on the news board. in essence a few people posted 10 or 30 articles a day to other websites and skunked the leader boards.

@Clarken i was just being kinda a dick with my o.p. except this place is just a cafe where you grab a 25 cent coffee ask the guy next to you whats going on and he says, goid article on that newsstand across the street. we can talk about it after you go buy a copy(not literally)

@Clarken i honestly am not trying to attack your prefered digestion method. i am just pointing out that the pizazz and allure that drove a large uptick in signups did not depend on sending other people to other websites so they could return and say"readit"

just swamping the homepage and drowning the flowers with noise.

Chef's kiss

Yes!

Love that idea of no safe spaces from the left!

There should be a reply button at the bottom of the post, are you still not seeing it?

This "bug" appears to affect anybody who replies to a comment in this forum. Maybe it's a "feature" though to keep conversations organized to the person making the original comment rather?