Libs when they find out that they also have to stop talking:

You're acting like libs will actually read the rules before engaging though.

And the debate pervert types would never use a "stop talking to me now" option. They live off of the attention they get for being obnoxious.

yeah. it makes sense to prioritize peace and unity among comrades, but between comrades and liberals maybe we should prioritize getting the message out.

maybe it works as long as “disengage” is a single word comment

Russian bots:

The usual format is (wall of rage text) then "therefore I disengage."

no more half measures walter

Type "disengage" and then just posting a continuation of the rant on a different person's post entirely as a bit.

comments get removed & people have been banned for pursuing an argument after one user has 'disengaged'. you've really never seen this? it is in the rules, and i think there was even a clarification at a later date regarding people who'd say 'disengage' but continue the argument for the last word.

i guess it's fortunate you've never been in a shit-flinging hostile enough it's been needed but this is by no means a new rule or one that's gone unused/appreciated

It's the rule, and it always has been if you want it to changed, talk to the mods, I don't have the power to change it even if I wanted to (I don't).

is not helpful or productive.

I saw a blahaj user post a link to this in defense of staying federated in their thread, so I beg to differ.

Not to mention, you just said you hadn't heard of it, now you have. Sounds like the post was necessary then.

You seem to be the only person who cares about this, Zuzak.

I've used that rule in the past and it worked. There's points where discussion becomes a toxic and pointless contest of oneupmanship and i think a large part of hexbear culture is that we offer an alternative to that particular way places like reddit handle debates.

This isn't used explicitly a ton, but I remember at the start of hexbear, then chapochat, that an important idea was you should not continually harass someone into an argument. Like purposefully trying to pull someone into an argument for the sake of being an ass was frowned on and you should not continually harass them. The ability to say "aight i'm done, this is bad for both of us" via the disengage is pretty valuable and we should honestly bring light to it more.

I think mods removing comments from people who are only trying to be hostile isn't a bad idea. We remove bad faith chud/lib comments. We should strive to act in good faith, even if we're incredibly annoying.

We're powerless!

tbh if you blocked everyone that was ever annoying on hexbear this site would be a ghost town lmao