This is a discussion forum. If someone doesn’t know what “ICBM” or “SDF” is an abbreviation is it’s reasonable to say “Hey, I don’t know what that it is.” It’s NOT very reasonable to ban anyone and everyone who comments on news articles. If qrstuv wants their community to be a particular way, they’ll get closer to that by communicating with users in threads about what the expectations are and what examples of good comments are. Removing comments with minimal explanation doesn’t help anyone understand what a good comment is or how they should be engaging in that community. The result has basically been what you see: !news@lemmy.sdf.org is a single user community without much engagement. Anyone who stumbles in and doesn’t know what they are in for is probable to get a removal
This is a discussion forum. If someone doesn’t know what “ICBM” or “SDF” is an abbreviation is it’s reasonable to say “Hey, I don’t know what that it is.” It’s NOT very reasonable to ban anyone and everyone who comments on news articles. If qrstuv wants their community to be a particular way, they’ll get closer to that by communicating with users in threads about what the expectations are and what examples of good comments are. Removing comments with minimal explanation doesn’t help anyone understand what a good comment is or how they should be engaging in that community. The result has basically been what you see: !news@lemmy.sdf.org is a single user community without much engagement. Anyone who stumbles in and doesn’t know what they are in for is probable to get a removal