Although I don't fully agree with the sentiment expressed by this thread, it did get me thinking about leaning even further into contributing to an environment I'd like to participate in. I personally much prefer dedicated discussion threads to discussing news stories myself and reading through the comments it seems like there is a huge desire among many for exactly that. In this thread I'd like to brainstorm with y'all about the conversations we wouldn't risk trying to have on reddit, conversations you don't have people around willing to engage in but would work well here, community vibe checks, or something I'm not considering. I would also like to explore what obstacles others see for why this hasn't happened already despite the apparent desire so any solutions we experiment with can avoid issues which we are already aware of.
My response to my own question will be in the comments.
I'd be interested in hearing people's moderately unpopular or neutral opinions on tech and games. A lot of popular opinion-based posts on Reddit seemed to have strong diehard opinions in one direction and people who disagreed were downvoted.
It gets a bit tiring to see. I like seeing discussions with moderate opinions where people acknowledge the good and bad regardless of whether they agree with them. If I'm in a PS3 community trying to get an Xbox 360 controller to work with PS3XPAD or if I'm in a Fallout community and I say I like Fallout 4 more than New Vegas because it felt less baron that should be fine. It's just chatting. The reason I mention tech and games specifically is because I know how slippery of a slope it can be to discuss online.
I hope that kind of makes sense.
Sure it makes sense. Chatting about how personal preferences differ is a casual thing which can even get people to try things they otherwise wouldn't or see them with a new perspective. Attacking someone for something like this is completely childish and unfortunately very reddit. From what I've experienced here it seems far less likely that it would be as big of a risk to bring up here.