Quote Originally Posted by Shialan View Post
I love how you are writing about echo chambers and toxic positivity. This forum is a MASSIVE echo chamber, but with just toxicity.
Someone whose thesis was literally based on the proliferation of Echo Chambers in online spaces here. There's actual discussion in this forum, and no attempt to silence others forcibly. There's also constant exchange of information, and I have witnessed SEVERAL people changing their minds on either spectrum. The FF14 Subreddit could be considered an Echo Chamber instead, as there is pretty severe content moderation, reinforced by the up/downvote system tossing subjects that aren't approved by perceived majority down into not being seen. While a lot of the discussion on the forum right now is indeed very negative, this is because DT has had a very mixed reception. This is then further amplified by other ways of communication (such as the aforementioned Subreddit, and I believe Twitter to a...slightly lesser extent?) shunning less positive conversation in regards to the game - which means that you see a greater influx of negativity here due to it being the next available public space for discussion. This, however, still does not make it into an Echo Chamber, because I am yet to see a single thread where everyone is blindly agreeing with one another.

In short, just because an opinion is not one that pleases you, it does not mean that it magically makes the area of discussion into an Echo Chamber. Instead, your way of seeing it is what enables the proliferation of these same exact things. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.