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Why are we jumping to the conclusion that the whole internet would follow the same rules though? I imagine some sites would want to cultivate certain kinds of h
by thex10 11y ago
Why are we jumping to the conclusion that the whole internet would follow the same rules though? I imagine some sites would want to cultivate certain kinds of humor (it might allow abuse, but at least not everyone's walking on eggshells), and others don't (and would rather enforce some rules in the hopes of cultivating an abuse-minimized environment).
Why wouldn't each individual service be able to make its own tradeoffs? Then users would vote with their feet and hangout in the places they like best anyway..
> Back in the "good old days" During the 90's and the 00's, the onus was on the user his-or-herself to ignore and filter out toxic behavior. And it's a shame I'm saying this in my 20s.
Back in the day they had to close their eyes and ignore.
Now in the day they craft software that ignores and filters out toxic behavior before it even gets to their eyes. ;)
You think we're regressing?
- FilterSweep 11y ago>Back in the day they had to close their eyes and ignore. Now in the day they craft software that ignores and filters out toxic behavior before it even gets to their eyes. ;) You think we're regressing? Yes, I do. Software could have been, and always can be, improved at the "regex level" (finding bad worse, slanderous words, etc.) but the money is now in catering an experience to where things one simply disagrees with can create a false positive as "toxic behavior." And it often does. The dialogue has completely regressed, and will continue to do so as long as catering to as wide an audience as possible is the Modus Operandi of Internet 2.x And it's quite simplistic to write off the past as "closing ones eyes and ignoring." At the very least, IRC channels had moderators.
- douche 11y agoI sort of miss the old days of the "clbuttic" obscenity filters you found on so many message boards...