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The Rise and Fall of Yik Yak

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Post by nv-vn »

closeparen wrote: post #136
pitaa wrote: post #59

>two feminist groups and several former students filed a federal complaint accusing the University of Mary Washington...of failing to protect the female plaintiffs from cyber harassment... I am confused as to why anyone thinks its the University's duty to protect their students from "cyber harassment." I mean, I am aware of Title IX and all, I am just shocked at the amount of control, influence, and involvement into…

If you're imagining a student driving to class, you're imagining a very different kind of environment. In the schools where these kinds of demands are made, the university provides your housing, food, utilities, medical care, the centers of your social life (both in terms of facilities and student organizations), local police department, credit union, etc. Even if you live off campus, the entire neighborhood is an (u…

Without a totally Orwellian system to deal with this, how could a university respond in this case? I can sort of see where you're coming from, but there's no clear-cut solution that would be in the university's power. It might be their job to protect students from harassment on Facebook (and I would say even that is slightly extreme), but I cannot fathom how a university could even begin to approach monitoring Yik Yak. Would all students be forced to hand in their cell phones and decrypt all their data? Or should we just set up surveillance cameras in their rooms so we can see when they use their phones? Yes, there are reasons for universities to protect their students, but there is clearly a line to be drawn in this specific case.

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Post by jjar »

1337biz wrote: post #98
jjar wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ability to shitpost with all types of people from your university was the drawing factor. I am sure that 99.9% of people who go to my university have never heard of 4chan, and maybe 20% (probably less) will use Reddit on a regular basis? Reddit also brings the issue that you're stuck talking to the same types of people - Generally young, white, nerdy guys. That girl on your rowing team or, the one you met in a cl…

>It was a social faux pas not to have it installed. So it's all over now? Any alternatives?

There was people who moved to the app Jodel here, but it just doesn't have the same penetration as Yik Yak did. So I wouldn't say there were any true alternatives, no. Someone did set up a facebook page where you can message in and post gossip anonymously, so that fills some of the gap I guess.

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Post by wand3r »

gotothedoctor wrote: post #68
pitaa wrote: post #59

>two feminist groups and several former students filed a federal complaint accusing the University of Mary Washington...of failing to protect the female plaintiffs from cyber harassment... I am confused as to why anyone thinks its the University's duty to protect their students from "cyber harassment." I mean, I am aware of Title IX and all, I am just shocked at the amount of control, influence, and involvement into…

Are you really confused? Leaving the law & federal funding requirements aside, Universities seek to have successful graduates & thus it is in their best interest to provide an environment that equips their students to learn. Being harassed undermines these goals, so regardless of the law, it is in their best interest to prevent such disruptions. I'm not sure I understand the bird analogy. Is the point that Universiti…

> Equips them to learn

I would argue it equips them for the real world. The internet extends off campus with them when they graduate.

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Post by _m8fo »

tolien wrote: post #41
mgkimsal wrote: post #35

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some people don't want to live in a world where that sort of aggressive behaviour goes unchecked. whether it affects you or not personally, it's still a negative effect that we can look to minimize. "bullying" takes on many forms, and while I tend to think that just words alone may not necessarily cause harm, I've seen it escalate to physical violence enough that it makes me want to nip it in the bud earlier rather t…

Considering it's almost word-for-word the OP with s/harassment/bullying/, it's probably fair to say the GP is making a point about this "just don't listen" line we keep hearing w.r.t online harassment.

Yeah, I thought that was pretty clear actually.

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Post by reilly3000 »

sanswork wrote: post #75
reilly3000 wrote: post #18

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In order to do a quarterly email that pays your the service you would have to achieve a minimum page CPM of $15 which at the industry average rate of $1.50 would need 10 ads sold and trafficked per email. Not impossible, but a lot of effort to source and manage that revenue and/or more frequent emails, larger rates (more sales effort) or ...?

You could definitely get a much higher CPM based off the locality and demographic. I'm sure there are local food places/stores looking for more student business that would happily drop $1-2000 for an ad that would go out to most of the student population.

At least two decades of start ups failing has proven that selling local advertising doesn't scale. However, At this scale that could work just fine.
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