The trolls are a small, small percentage of users but some of the loudest.
Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
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Re: Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
#42From what i've seen on reddit, twitter, and sometimes even on hn, some are quick to label people whose opinion differs from theirs as trolls. It doesn't matter if it is a polite or well-though out comment, they are quick to shout the word harassment or whatever -ist allows them to hold some moral high ground.
You just defined SJW
Which arguably also is a label quickly thrown at people with different opinions.
Re: Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
#43From what i've seen on reddit, twitter, and sometimes even on hn, some are quick to label people whose opinion differs from theirs as trolls. It doesn't matter if it is a polite or well-though out comment, they are quick to shout the word harassment or whatever -ist allows them to hold some moral high ground.
Pao had thousands of people calling her a ching-chong cunt. Why do you think your comment is relevant to this thread?
Thousands of people? Where did you get that number from? Also, there were (misguided) reasons for people to be upset, which does not justify the racism, but hey, extreme insults are normal if you are very angry (no, not just on the Internet but also outside tech filter bubbles).
Re: Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
#44She's still a millionaire executive. Obviously nobody deserves the kind of abuse she's gotten, but I think I could put up with a whole lot of nobodies saying mean things about me on the internet in return for being in her position.
Re: Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
#45may be, yet it is still doesn't help them win in court ...
Without any reason, just as a fishing expedition for millions of dollars, she basically publicly labeled a bunch of men as sexist pigs. Talking about trolling, ehh..
Re: Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
#46From what i've seen on reddit, twitter, and sometimes even on hn, some are quick to label people whose opinion differs from theirs as trolls. It doesn't matter if it is a polite or well-though out comment, they are quick to shout the word harassment or whatever -ist allows them to hold some moral high ground.
Pao had thousands of people calling her a ching-chong cunt. Why do you think your comment is relevant to this thread?
The article speaks wider than Pao's own personal experience and speaks on the internet as a whole
Re: Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
#47Does anybody remember when trolling was a term used to describe an activity in which users wielding enough understanding of other's perspectives would attempt to give other's cognitive dissonance? It seems that one of the most powerful online political classes have lumped hatred and abuse in with disagreement, mockery and satire. I don't think it's good for the conversation between the group of user's that dislike wh…
EDIT: Removed overreaction to grammatical pet peeve that distracts from the main point.
> It seems that one of the most powerful online political classes have lumped hatred and abuse in with disagreement and mockery.
Its pretty common, online and off, for people of all classes to ascribe disagreement with their preferred position with "hatred and abuse". Mistaking this common error for a feature of a particular "powerful online class" is, AFAICT, the same kind of misperception of persecution as the error itself.
Re: Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
#48From what i've seen on reddit, twitter, and sometimes even on hn, some are quick to label people whose opinion differs from theirs as trolls. It doesn't matter if it is a polite or well-though out comment, they are quick to shout the word harassment or whatever -ist allows them to hold some moral high ground.
Pao had thousands of people calling her a ching-chong cunt. Why do you think your comment is relevant to this thread?
Pao had thousands of accounts calling her a ching-chong cunt.
There's potentially a big difference.
I'm not defending the slur - it's abhorrent. But if the magnitude matters to you, let's try to be accurate when we describe what we're counting.
Re: Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
#49From what i've seen on reddit, twitter, and sometimes even on hn, some are quick to label people whose opinion differs from theirs as trolls. It doesn't matter if it is a polite or well-though out comment, they are quick to shout the word harassment or whatever -ist allows them to hold some moral high ground.
Pao had thousands of people calling her a ching-chong cunt. Why do you think your comment is relevant to this thread?
Real trolls exist, but other than that, I must admit I was also thinking that a rallying cry against trolling is usually just a cry to shut down people somebody disagrees with. Actual trolling without content is usually well covered by user agreements and general law.
Re: Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
#50From what i've seen on reddit, twitter, and sometimes even on hn, some are quick to label people whose opinion differs from theirs as trolls. It doesn't matter if it is a polite or well-though out comment, they are quick to shout the word harassment or whatever -ist allows them to hold some moral high ground.
Pao had thousands of people calling her a ching-chong cunt. Why do you think your comment is relevant to this thread?
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