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Originally Posted by janielee
These people also go in to the Buddhist section and do the same. One of them recently proclaimed that he has no intention of really learning, he is just there to convince others to subscribe to his unenlightened, constrained and limited perspective. It was obvious that he had no idea what he was even saying, and yet kept recycling the same old, ridiculous and uninformed "challenges".
I have to admit that I feel it might be the same person on this forum. I agree that such behaviors border on toxicity, if not outright trolling.
Also, I have so much respect and admiration for folks who subscribe to vegetarianism/veganism.
Thanks and sorry for the annoyances, to you both...
JL
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Janie,
You're not an annoyance at all. Thank you so much reading this and thank you so much for chiming in!
There is a lot of toxic behavior and manipulation that's been going on in these forums for the last few years.
I have noticed a lot of people coming in who want to debunk, argue and debate just about every topic not because they want to learn but because they just want to stir up the pot. And we let it happen because we're inclusive.
We let these people bully us, manipulate us, trash talk our beliefs in our own spaces and bring down the over-all quality of this forum and over time the quality people get discouraged and go some place else. That's why the Strong Opinion section has is now mostly filled with conspiracy theory garbage.
The moderators can't do it all alone. I am angry because after so long of putting up with this kind of abuse. I think it's important that we members who actually come to spiritual forums to learn, to connect and grow, stand up to these people and make it clear they are not welcome. We can't be polite to these toxic people. If we want to bring back the level of quality this place used to be, we have to work together.