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I did the "go to next town" It worked, but then I got to (https://emilesilvis.com/) and got stuck. The Town Square is in 1/2 the page, so you can't get to the two ends to be able to go to the next town.
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Nah, drive those horrible people out of social spaces. I want to talk to other people without racist assholes bumbling around. Being a racist asshole carries some inherent risks too, like people choosing not to let you enter their spaces.
more than anything it’s just signal to noise ratios. i’m so sick of people just adding dipshit noise to every single place they can and making it impossible to have normal ass conversation. at the end of the day, these people need to realize the simple shit we realize in like 1st grade: if you’re an asshole to everyone around you, no one will want to be around you. it really is that simple. but for some reason some o…
Lo and behold, the EXACT person I had in mind when making the rule, moaned about it.
Works as intended.
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I get the desire to moderate your game, but how are words 'harmful' exactly? Especially random, throwaway internet spew. Harmful to your game's reputation, maybe. But to the people?
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Is this an appeal to the law or something? It's not a very good argument. Many things which are harmful are not illegal. Many things which are illegal are not harmful.
Also, that's not even how divorce works!
> no one is claiming words are physically harmful
"speech is violence" is a position that some people hold.
> if words had no power, we wouldn’t fight so hard to protect them from government abuse.
People fight hard for all kinds of nonsense. Historically, people have fought hard for things that didn't matter at all.
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I get the desire to moderate your game, but how are words 'harmful' exactly? Especially random, throwaway internet spew. Harmful to your game's reputation, maybe. But to the people?
Clearly you haven't been exposed to much of the underbelly of the internet. Words can translate to physical harm and actions in the real world, and do regularly
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Clearly you haven't been exposed to much of the underbelly of the internet. Words can translate to physical harm and actions in the real world, and do regularly
This sounds like a disingenuous argument to actually try to argue for more racism. Every kid in the world has been called stupid by a classmate and knows that words aren't meaningless.
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This sounds like a disingenuous argument to actually try to argue for more racism. Every kid in the world has been called stupid by a classmate and knows that words aren't meaningless.
Who said that words are meaningless?
>> if words had no power, we wouldn’t fight so hard to protect them from government abuse.
>People fight hard for all kinds of nonsense.
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Who said that words are meaningless?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620564 >> if words had no power, we wouldn’t fight so hard to protect them from government abuse. >People fight hard for all kinds of nonsense. https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsense
In the "this is why we can't have nice things" category, the first thing I saw was someone calling themselves "dick and balls". :(
Yeah, but don't lat the HN crowd spoil the thing. You can check the other sites that are using Hackernews and you might have a great experience! I've been chatting with a lot of people with similar interest and had a lot of very nice interactions!
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After having been a moderator for a number of communities over the years—BBCs in the 90s, niche forums during the 00s & 10s, Reddit boards in the 20s—I’ve come to believe that running shadow services where disruptive individuals can comingle may be the best way to handle this. The advent of LLMs really opens the door to shunting off these “community members “ who’d rather contribute in misanthropic ways for the lulz…
This suggestion is scarier than the thought someone might say a slur. You're talking about using a machine to detect social undesirables then quarantining them in the matrix.
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Can you please edit out swipes like "Do you hear yourself?". This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing the other guidelines too, we'd appreciate it. Note this one, for example:
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."