Lemmy’s markdown does actually have footnotes!^[1]

Policing just tone is how you get very polite and nicely-worded conversations about exterminating untermenschen “human biodiversity”

I feel like saying “I have to do this before anything else” might very well end with me doing nothing

At the same time that’s one of the bad parts of anonymous discussion. You never know if someone’s an expert or a random person guessing (on ELI5), engaging in good faith or purposely trolling, etc.

The other day I heard a random (young) girl say “what the sigma” and I had trouble keeping it together

Yeah smart kids can be very immature

Unless you have mods that aren’t afraid to drive out the assholes

The correct response to my post should have been “that’s probably satire”.

Isn’t that what both replies basically say?

“Hi everybody!”

The final bit is interesting. Vaxry says Q (who was openly bigoted) got punished, but doesn’t mention prisj (who was slightly less open about it).

#general does indeed sometimes have jokes that some people might treat as “controversial”.

And if you really need a place with controversial jokes, split it off from your support server or something.