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If you give people a big wall and free spray paint, of course they 'll fill it with dicks. Unlike real life, there is nobody to paint over them. Trolling is a n

by return0 10y ago

If you give people a big wall and free spray paint, of course they 'll fill it with dicks. Unlike real life, there is nobody to paint over them. Trolling is a natural part of the internet, its the price for having relative freedom, i dont have a problem with it. If that puts off people who don't have the capacity to tune it out, all the better.

koolba 10y ago
> Unlike real life, there is nobody to paint over them. In the real world having your tagging painted over is one of the saddest feelings. I wonder if there's a way to digitize that sensation but I think people are desensitized to things being deleted. It would have to be beyond that.
- dredmorbius 10y ago
  I've seen people respond similarly or analagously to having their posts or comments removed. Which makes me cautious about invoking that particular remedy in any but particularly eggregious or blatent cases. If I think there's any reasonable option for remediation, I'll try to avoid it. Spam and blatent trollery, not so much.
defined 10y ago
Sure, but if the big wall is a map, and you're trying to find something on that map, all the dicks make it so much harder to find it that giving up in despair is often the reaction. It's hard to tune out a cubic mile of dicks when you're looking for a pearl.
- skylan_q 10y ago
  That's a terrible analogy because you can refine your search nowadays.
- ashark 10y ago
  Well, in that case the Internet "map"'s problem is less the dicks drawn here and there than its being covered on every square centimeter by ads. Oh wait, I think I see the part of the map I needed... oh, no, just another ad designed to make me think it was part of the map.
sp332 10y ago
That's not true of course. Most graffiti, murals etc are not of dicks. And if you have a community bulletin board that gets spray-painted with dicks, someone is going to possibly get fined or jailed.

by return0 10y ago

koolba 10y ago

> Unlike real life, there is nobody to paint over them. In the real world having your tagging painted over is one of the saddest feelings. I wonder if there's a way to digitize that sensation but I think people are desensitized to things being deleted. It would have to be beyond that.

dredmorbius 10y ago
I've seen people respond similarly or analagously to having their posts or comments removed. Which makes me cautious about invoking that particular remedy in any but particularly eggregious or blatent cases. If I think there's any reasonable option for remediation, I'll try to avoid it. Spam and blatent trollery, not so much.

defined 10y ago

Sure, but if the big wall is a map, and you're trying to find something on that map, all the dicks make it so much harder to find it that giving up in despair is often the reaction. It's hard to tune out a cubic mile of dicks when you're looking for a pearl.

skylan_q 10y ago
That's a terrible analogy because you can refine your search nowadays.
ashark 10y ago
Well, in that case the Internet "map"'s problem is less the dicks drawn here and there than its being covered on every square centimeter by ads. Oh wait, I think I see the part of the map I needed... oh, no, just another ad designed to make me think it was part of the map.

sp332 10y ago

That's not true of course. Most graffiti, murals etc are not of dicks. And if you have a community bulletin board that gets spray-painted with dicks, someone is going to possibly get fined or jailed.