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I'm just middle aged and lost all energy for unproductive discussions. The second another poster posts something genuinely hostile, like "touch grass" kinda shit, I'm just done talking. Also if we're six comments in and the other guy won't even admit to being wrong to the thing he said on comment one, despite me doing twenty minutes of research to prove conclusively that he's wrong, I don't want to waste another second of my life on him.

I gotta have 10% of the "disengage" comments on this site.

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[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There's also the issue where someone will write a multi paragraph response then add disengage at the end to ger the last word in

There was a post a while ago where mods were saying not to do that but it isn't enforced

[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

Its absolutely enforced when we see it happen. Report any instance of the disengage rule being used improperly like that. We don't see everything and rely heavily on user reports to point out CoC violations

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Was gonna say I'm pretty sure that's against the rules and you don't have to respect that "disengage" if it's made like that.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

There's also the issue where someone will write a multi paragraph response then add disengage at the end to ger the last word in

That hasn't been an issue for over a year. Doing that will - or at least was - grounds for a banning. I know because I'm the one that asked for the rule to be clarified so it didn't work like that.
There was some drama with some user who kept doing it, which was the motivation for the rule change/clarification.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

I've got someone banned for not respecting proper disengage etiquette, so it's definitely enforced when reported.