If I was to nominate the two things I find most striking about Mastodon they'd be:
1. the ability to edit posts after posting; this (as my followers will know) is a facility that I use a lot (and thanks to my great crew of typo spotters);
2. the norm of civility that we all maintain; of course trolling & slamming is not completely absent, but at least in my timeline & discussions/conversations civility have been the over-riding characteristic of my exchanges.
@ChrisMayLA6 Well, when it comes to the norm of civility, I think you yourself, is the reason. I'm no stranger to trolling, but you just have this peaceful aura, and what you write is interesting, which just makes it difficult to troll you. Sometimes I lightly try, but it never sticks. ;)
ha ha, good point; perhaps I am emanating civility....
@ChrisMayLA6 You do! It would actually be very interesting to watch you in action at some municipal politics.
The nearest I came to that was middle management at the university - there I used to humour to maintain civilly in sometimes fraught meetings (but as Kissinger once said; academic arguments are fraught because what is at stake is so low)
@ChrisMayLA6 Haha... brilliant quote.
The last 2 times I had management arguments I used logic and fact which made the opposite position untenable.
But humor is better, because disproving an "opponent" breeds resentment, and later counter attacks.
But the environment was very leftist, and for 3 years I managed to get them to focus on business, rather than on politics, but there is only so much you can do remotely when the rest of the
Yes, similarly; coming from the private sector (and having run my parents small business) invariably I was taking a more 'business-like' position on issues but livened by humour I was relatively immune from most grumbling
@ChrisMayLA6 You are a wise man!
@ChrisMayLA6 management team is physical, so I had to leave in the end.
The company then went on to lose about 50% of its employees and about 3 years of revenue growth.