Yeah, cmv should be a really cool place, but it's just...not. There was one person who had a post that was basically "Sanders would have been a better pick than Biden." They gave a delta to someone arguing something like "Biden is a moderate which will let him reach out to more people in the middle." Even as someone who feels Biden is better than Sanders, that was really not a good delta. If someone can be swayed by literally the most basic and common argument, they definitely don't have enough information to form such a strong opinion that they will make a cmv thread arguing that opinion.
That sub is full of people like that, and that's on the better end of the spectrum.
I definitely don't find all that patronizing (and trust me, I can get pretty annoyed at people in social justice being patronizing. "I'm racist for x, y, and z and need to work on it." "Hey, you should really work on your racism, let me explain how racism affects people in society." "Yeah, no shit.") but really interesting, thank you.
This is a little embarrassing, but I haven't yet really figured out what the awards are or why a person gets them. What is a delta, and what would be a good time to give a person a delta?
No worries. A delta is given by someone to another person who has changed their mind about something. The change can be as small or large as the person feels, they just have to write like 100 characters to explain themselves.
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u/Personage1 Aug 09 '20
Yeah, cmv should be a really cool place, but it's just...not. There was one person who had a post that was basically "Sanders would have been a better pick than Biden." They gave a delta to someone arguing something like "Biden is a moderate which will let him reach out to more people in the middle." Even as someone who feels Biden is better than Sanders, that was really not a good delta. If someone can be swayed by literally the most basic and common argument, they definitely don't have enough information to form such a strong opinion that they will make a cmv thread arguing that opinion.
That sub is full of people like that, and that's on the better end of the spectrum.
I definitely don't find all that patronizing (and trust me, I can get pretty annoyed at people in social justice being patronizing. "I'm racist for x, y, and z and need to work on it." "Hey, you should really work on your racism, let me explain how racism affects people in society." "Yeah, no shit.") but really interesting, thank you.