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Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

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Post by mattgreenrocks »

krickle wrote: post #158
ceol wrote: post #139

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I know well of the niche communities in reddit. I frequent most of them to hide myself from the default subs. However, the same problems still exist. For instance, I enjoy the show Adventure Time , so I subscribed to the /r/adventuretime subreddit. It was fine for a while, but then a submission popped up on my front page. It was a photograph of a group of kids cosplaying as Adventure Time characters at a local conven…

If people acting like jerks offends you that much, you are going to have a bad time on the internet. Although if you know of anywhere besides HN that is mostly reasonable, please PM me :) nitpick: just as you are offended by rude comments, I am offended by advocating violence as a response to rudeness. I don't think you were serious, but I have to say there's nothing you can say or write that actually warrants a punc…

Defending poor behavior perpetuates it. Stop tolerating crappy behavior from users, and move to platforms where such childishness is met with disciplinary action.

Use your imagination. It's possible to have reasonable discussions on the Internet. It's just very rare, and everyone's too scared to a) not be the 'best site with all users' and b) have a reputation for 'censoring' content.

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

#162

Post by koglerjs »

jmduke wrote: post #160
koglerjs wrote: post #159

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Are you saying you can't comprehend what I was trying to mean? Your second paragraph is exactly the attitude that I despise. I don't care what your intent is: the effect is you want to hide what people really think. There are no tools to handle that discussion. And that doesn't mean it shouldn't happen. And that means we'll find the tools for it. Clueless. edit: I feel like I'm in the midst of the argument that HN do…

The hell? No, discussions which lead to more rape should not happen. This, I feel, is an unambiguous truth. (I'm not saying that the particular reddit thread encouraged rape, though a psychologist much more well-versed than myself did -- but I don't think its a logical leap to see why victim-blaming would encourage self-rationalization of rape.)

The psychologist you cite I myself cited. The point of discussing anything is that no discussions lead to more rape.

Unless you're afraid.

If you're afraid that real discussion will cause more rape, and that the sacrifice of real understanding is worth pretending that that more rape doesn't exist.

Because that's the guarantee.

That's what that meh-ish psychologist proved.

We will not forget. Because there's nothing we're not afraid to know.

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

#163

Post by 1123581321 »

ceol wrote: post #132
lubujackson wrote: post #128

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Much, much better support on Ask Metafilter. You have to pay a whole $5 for eternal access, but that's apparently enough to reduce the level of trolls by 9000%.

I keep hearing good things about Metafilter. Maybe it's the solution to my ever-growing problem of what to replace reddit with.

It's a wonderful community with a lot of different interests, and if you e-mail the admins to ask them a question they reply. Matt's built a good culture. I recommend it.

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

#164

Post by koglerjs »

codeka wrote: post #156
koglerjs wrote: post #133

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I think what I'm saying is that you're upset about a thing that is a necessary reaction to the telling of truth.

Do you mean that the victim-blaming is what these people actually believe and therefore it's a form of "truth"? That we can say victim-blaming is wrong but the truth is, there's a lot of people out there who blame the victim for rape and that's something that should be acknowledged? That's something I think I can agree with. Clearly, victim-blaming is a bigger problem than people might like to admit and while reddit…

>Do you mean that the victim-blaming is what these people actually believe and therefore it's a form of "truth"

That's obvious to the point of uselessness. I think we're on the same page re: victim-blaming being a big problem. I don't dismiss any of the comments that talk about victim-blaming.

The only thing I'm really pushing for is: this conversation should happen. And it is, between you and me.

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

#166

Post by koglerjs »

koglerjs wrote: post #146
crag wrote: post #114

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"The best place to ask questions from the article like "What is the best way to hide an affair" Nahh ask it on 4chan- /s (of course). Be more fun. ;)

you're the only one in this thread that knows chaos. So fuck you. :D edit: ok well, to the point of expressing it. orthodoxy. he's the only one that was willing to fight orthodoxy. because my thread had its bearings in the absurd and often wrong orthodoxy of reddit.

downvote me more pls.

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

#167

Post by jmduke »

koglerjs wrote: post #162
jmduke wrote: post #160

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The hell? No, discussions which lead to more rape should not happen. This, I feel, is an unambiguous truth. (I'm not saying that the particular reddit thread encouraged rape, though a psychologist much more well-versed than myself did -- but I don't think its a logical leap to see why victim-blaming would encourage self-rationalization of rape.)

The psychologist you cite I myself cited. The point of discussing anything is that no discussions lead to more rape. Unless you're afraid. If you're afraid that real discussion will cause more rape, and that the sacrifice of real understanding is worth pretending that that more rape doesn't exist. Because that's the guarantee. That's what that meh-ish psychologist proved. We will not forget. Because there's nothing w…

"The point of discussing anything is that no discussions lead to more rape."

"If you're afraid that real discussion will cause more rape, and that the sacrifice of real understanding is worth pretending that that more rape doesn't exist."

Please qualify these statements and explain why your argument is superior to that of a psychologist?

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

#168

Post by Herring »

J_Darnley wrote: post #82
Herring wrote: post #33

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I changed my user agent string & managed to get down to 15.99 bits of information (one in 65,161). Curious if anyone did better.

Would you care to go into detail about what you changed? Wouldn't changing too much make a user agent stand out? Now I come to think about it, changing the GB to US in my user agent would probably make it less unique.

Then you'd be a British IP with a US user agent, which is probably a ton of bits. I just used User Agent Switcher & changed it to firefox 5.0 under XP.

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

#169

Post by JeremyBanks »

_delirium wrote: post #31
vladd wrote: post #7

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You can no longer browse Quora while being logged out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332978

I'm still confused how that gets by Google. The full text shows up in search results, but is blurred by CSS for humans. Isn't that not allowed? Even experts-exchange includes the readable plaintext answers way at the bottom if you scroll down, for that reason. edit: removed discussion of googleoff/googleon directives in the HTML source. Seemed suspicious, but apparently it's something to do with Google Search Applian…

I just asked about this on Quora (ha). Apparently the full results do not show up in search results: http://www.quora.com/Quora/Why-hasnt-Google-banned-Quora-for...

(If anybody has a counterexample I'd be interested to see it, but try to make sure it's not just an old result that hasn't been re-indexed since the change.)

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

#170

Post by koglerjs »

jmduke wrote: post #167
koglerjs wrote: post #162

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The psychologist you cite I myself cited. The point of discussing anything is that no discussions lead to more rape. Unless you're afraid. If you're afraid that real discussion will cause more rape, and that the sacrifice of real understanding is worth pretending that that more rape doesn't exist. Because that's the guarantee. That's what that meh-ish psychologist proved. We will not forget. Because there's nothing w…

"The point of discussing anything is that no discussions lead to more rape." "If you're afraid that real discussion will cause more rape, and that the sacrifice of real understanding is worth pretending that that more rape doesn't exist." Please qualify these statements and explain why your argument is superior to that of a psychologist?

oh god I hate writing arguments from authority but... oh wait.

I'm only fighting an argument from authority.

Hah. I actually don't have to say anything.

But while I'm here, .;'';.

It's a troll face.

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