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Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by eecc »

cheph wrote: post #571
ohyes wrote: post #519

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Get your point across without stomping a category of disabled person and making me think you're an immature shit-for-brains who I don't want to associate with. You act like your dictionary definition of the word 'retard' is some brilliant insight. It's garbage. Everyone, everywhere, would be better off without the 'content' that you're providing. You have the right to say whatever you want and I have the right to thr…

> immature Get your point across without stomping a category of person.

Exactly, at least they didn’t use “childish” as a slur to condemn this behavior they consider inappropriate. Children have a significant inner world that deserves respect... /s

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by prox »

agumonkey wrote: post #490
technick wrote: post #474

Discord would claim its “hateful and discriminatory content” for anything in the fucked up reality we are currently living in. For instance, if you call someone retarded and a mod doesn't step in, that is considered hateful. Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people. Then saying that only retards buy the shit hedgefunds are peddling would also be considered discriminatory. I'm…

discord is filled with 'snowflakes' (apologies if that seems insulting) I'm only a sample of 1 but on IRC I never felt surrounded by trigger happy mods. on discord I got regularly kicked without notice for some not even heated argument. if I extrapolate, this side of the web is becoming a way for people to craft tiny bubbles to fit their own little views on life.

Any on-line venue is a place where mods and admins make the rules. You know them before going in. Their place, their rules. It’s the same when going into any bar. Some bars may allow rowdy behavior, others have strict measures.

In such places speech is a privilege and not a right.

The only remarkable thing here in this article is the size of the discord. The problem with huge size is that the amplification effect is a lot bigger and that tends to get noticed. In the real world you don’t have bars with tens of thousands of guests.

The last line you mention is true-ish if said rather derogatory, but if you value freedom of speech, you can also extrapolate that everyone has a right on their view of life, nothing little about it.

The problem that is not being mentioned is cause and effect. If your view on life is basically violent and emotional, that helps nothing when it comes to public discourse. In all my years when I was a mod on IRC, never did name calling or derogatory names further an argument or improve communication, except when we were maybe discussing the topic itself.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by Tepix »

enw wrote: post #457

How long will people endure the censorship? Is it just me or am I seeing more subtle revolt against this persistent, opaque censorship on the Internet? I'm trying to stay down-to-Earth, but it honestly seems to be getting out of control with Google, Twitter, et al.

There are plenty of hard to censor systems out there. You can setup your own Mastodon node or join one with lax rules. The convenience of centralized systems currently trumps the feelings about the moderation of these platforms.

If you feel strongly about it you should go ahead, switch to a decentralized platform and get your friends to follow suit.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by Ygg2 »

newswasboring wrote: post #620
echelon wrote: post #617

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We're slipping into some alternate universe where freedom of speech is being adjusted for our safety. It's starting with noble causes, like stemming racism and hate speech. But this is one step into a land of control where divergent opinions will be cause for deplatforming. This is dangerous.

What are you on about mate? This has nothing to do with my point about dictionaries.

This was never about dictionaries or the r-word.

That was always a justification.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by molenzwiebel »

Ygg2 wrote: post #631
newswasboring wrote: post #555

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> Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people. All curse words are in the dictionary. Dictionaries are for looking up meaning, not moral arbiters. What are you on about?

That ain't the issue here. Many Discords use this word, but they don't get banned. Why is WSB different?

As a moderator of a large (400k+ members) Discord, I can confirm that Discord has specifically told members of the partner program to remove words such as retard. I've never heard of a server being banned for it, but not allowing retard and the like has been a policy for more than a year now.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by eecc »

hrktb wrote: post #626
oscribinn wrote: post #498

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I'm going to get downvoted for this for sure, but man it's nice to see a hacker news commentator that actually has a pair.

It still fascinates me that everything goes back to having a pair or not. For me it’s not the profanity but where it goes back to that makes me pause.

Ti generalize the expression to both genders, in Italy the pair can refer to testicles, breasts or ovaries. The point being “having significant reproductive potential”... I hope it will never be poco’d to avoid offending people that have reproductive disorders.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by vbezhenar »

dmurray wrote: post #276
Blikkentrekker wrote: post #258

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4chan hosts it's own server: — how could it? Cloudflare did drop 8chan for political pressure. Both also have a very undeserved reputation. I saw news reports on 8chan as if it were something similar to Stormfront . The front page was mostly video game and pornography and one had to search very deep into it's hidden circles to find racial supremacy content.

> 4chan hosts it's own server: — how could it? ISPs could just drop their customers' traffic to that server. This happens all the time and has happened to 4chan before. Or they could go further and refuse to peer with any ISP that doesn't block 4chan, or lobby to have the government compel ISPs to block it, likely on think-of-the-children or think-of-the-terrorism grounds. Self hosting definitely isn't some magic way…

Just use VPN or Tor. My country blocks lots of websites, so VPN is routine thing for me. I recommend wireguard.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by 317070 »

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #614
chordalkeyboard wrote: post #598

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> short sellers will be forced to buy all their stock at market price on Friday. Isn’t that what it means when someone is naked short?

I’m not a finance expert, but the hedge funds could have bought GME stocks sometimes between opening their short position and closing it. The short could have been naked when it was made, but there is nothing stopping the hedge fund from buying the underlying security ahead of the short position closing.

Yes, but you cannot do that when you are short 149% of all stock. There simply is not enough stock available to cover your short position.

Which is why GME was targeted in the first place.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by slavik81 »

px43 wrote: post #537
agumonkey wrote: post #490

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discord is filled with 'snowflakes' (apologies if that seems insulting) I'm only a sample of 1 but on IRC I never felt surrounded by trigger happy mods. on discord I got regularly kicked without notice for some not even heated argument. if I extrapolate, this side of the web is becoming a way for people to craft tiny bubbles to fit their own little views on life.

Discord is an app for kids to talk about playing video games. That's like being upset that you got banned for cussing someone out on Club Penguin. The target audience for Discord is kids, of course they're going to have harsher moderation policies than IRC did back in the day.

Discord lets you tag channels as NSFW. There are clearly design features intended specifically for adults.
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