What makes this worse is the obvious disrespect from Cowbee of my request to disengage. I made it very clear I didn’t want to argue. These communities have absolutely no standards of behaviour for members of the in-group. Which is exactly why I don’t engage with them in these communities.
Well, also the fact that I hate being constantly called a liberal for not repeating Capitalist Putin’s latest botfarm talking point. Talking to these people is an exercise in keeping my calm while I am constantly insulted. No thank you.
Interesting. What’s the value of an explicit “disengage” compared to just not replying?
Well for one: silence isn’t disengaging sometimes, so they may keep replying.
Sometimes you’d want to add extra context before you disengage too; for this we will take action against people who break the rule (on our instance)
You can’t say “Disengage! Also you’re stupid.” as some “last word own”. If that is said then they’ll have to deal the consequences; we won’t do anything abt it.
It’s a courtesy to tell the other user that they shouldn’t expect a response, and an extension of good-faith.