Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's also the origin of the word "glowie": https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie
Perhaps the modern/mainstream popularization.
Huh? Where do you think it originates then?
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#62It seems to be an Openbox theme in case anyone else is interested
Yeah, adding "for Arch Linux" seems unnecessary. Could @dang correct the title?
"Temple OS Theme / Rice For Arch Linux" is the description of the repo on the page. I understand the sentiment, but I don't think the title's the right place to correct the original author.
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#63As someone who first knew Terry Davis from Slashdot where his clearly mentally ill posts seemed to get downvoted a lot of the time, it is remarkable to see that the products of his madness have become regarded as real art with staying power. He is like the Adolf Wölfli of the hacker crowd.
He's also the origin of the word "glowie": https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie
AFAIK that originated with the video where he said this:
NSFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbG6u86t4bA
Then the word “glowie” was coined in 4chan based on that, as others commented here already.
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#64Sigh. Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end. Whether that’s true, no clue. But I like to think he deserved better.
4chan killed Terry Davis. It was a concerted effort over many years to get him run out of his home and society. HN banning him was not the cause of this, it was a symptom. I think of Terry often, and he most certainly deserved better.
>4chan killed Terry Davis.
weird. they seem to like him
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
4chan killed Terry Davis. It was a concerted effort over many years to get him run out of his home and society. HN banning him was not the cause of this, it was a symptom. I think of Terry often, and he most certainly deserved better.
>4chan killed Terry Davis. weird. they seem to like him
They liked Chris Chan too, and look at what happened.
4chan "likes" vulnerable people in much the way that psychopaths "like" small animals.
Hacker News had a weird fetishistic fascination with him too.
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#66Sigh. Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end. Whether that’s true, no clue. But I like to think he deserved better.
It's not viable for a community that wants to maintain quality discourse to allow continued posting by somebody who reliably mixes in slurs and bigotry. I feel bad for Terry, because by all indications those posts were driven by mental health issues rather than intentional bigotry, but the effect of allowing them in the community is the same.
And while you or I might be willing to put up with that as we're aware of the person and circumstances, there are many more people who don't know who he is and his circumstances and merely see the profanity-laden ramblings, and will simply leave. Keeping Terry on HN was untenable.
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#67Sigh. Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end. Whether that’s true, no clue. But I like to think he deserved better.
That's sad and I feel for anyone whose mental illness drives wedges between them and society. I can't imagine many things more horrifying than to be a sentient mind trapped in a brain determined to play tricks on it. That said, you can't just let someone with those issues spew awfulness even if it's caused by a medical condition. That's a rough situation for the person being banned but I'm not sure what the less bad…
The "less-bad" alternative would be to remember what you were told when you were five years old:
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me"
Puritanical grown adults on the post-2008 Internet acting like scared children afraid of tokens of text are the root of the problem.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
4chan killed Terry Davis. It was a concerted effort over many years to get him run out of his home and society. HN banning him was not the cause of this, it was a symptom. I think of Terry often, and he most certainly deserved better.
>4chan killed Terry Davis. weird. they seem to like him
there is an important distinction between laughing with, and laughing at. there was likely a bit of both.
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#70Sigh. Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end. Whether that’s true, no clue. But I like to think he deserved better.
The turning point was when he was kicked out of his house. That's when he became homeless and started living in a van. That affected him in many ways, and it was noticeable. Before, he was always shaved and clean. After becoming homeless that changed. Someone sent him a drum set and the noise annoyed his parents. He also annoyed them in other ways. Trolls were entertained by stressing the relationship between Terry a…
> A reminder that we should not hesitate to drive into the glow
you're advocating joining the CIA?