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Well, they blocked the app on all US middle- and high-school campuses so it couldn't be used for bullying. But past that I wouldn't call it a rampant problem. I

by pitaa 9y ago

Well, they blocked the app on all US middle- and high-school campuses so it couldn't be used for bullying. But past that I wouldn't call it a rampant problem. If anything the anonymous factor prevented harassment within the app, because between posts you couldn't identify anyone, thus no one could really carry grudges or become "popular." The main problems were the occasional bomb threat and the overall degenerate nature of some of the posts.

pavel_lishin 9y ago
Bullying is a weird word for "harassment". > If anything the anonymous factor prevented harassment within the app, because between posts you couldn't identify anyone, thus no one could really carry grudges or become "popular." But you can say, "Jennie Ginger is a slut", and positively identify a real person in real life. Or you could just spout racist epithets. I'm not sure why I'm positing hypotheticals, when harassment was an actual, ongoing problem: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/technology/popular-yik-yak-app-confers-anonymity-and-delivers-abuse.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/technology/popular-yik-ya... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yik-yak-harassment_us_564367bee4b08cda3486e279 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yik-yak-harassment_us_56... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/07/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-yik-yak/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10... http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/07/technology/yik-yak-university-of-mary-washington/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/07/technology/yik-yak-universit... - sorry, auto-playing video (fuck you, CNN). This article is weird; I can't tell if it's blaming the victims, or the colleges, or the institution of college altogether: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2015/10/yik_yak_enables_bullying_and_hate_speech_but_banning_it_solves_nothing.html http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2015/10/yik_yak...

by pitaa 9y ago

pavel_lishin 9y ago

Bullying is a weird word for "harassment". > If anything the anonymous factor prevented harassment within the app, because between posts you couldn't identify anyone, thus no one could really carry grudges or become "popular." But you can say, "Jennie Ginger is a slut", and positively identify a real person in real life. Or you could just spout racist epithets. I'm not sure why I'm positing hypotheticals, when harassment was an actual, ongoing problem: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/technology/popular-yik-yak-app-confers-anonymity-and-delivers-abuse.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/technology/popular-yik-ya... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yik-yak-harassment_us_564367bee4b08cda3486e279 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yik-yak-harassment_us_56... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/07/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-yik-yak/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10... http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/07/technology/yik-yak-university-of-mary-washington/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/07/technology/yik-yak-universit... - sorry, auto-playing video (fuck you, CNN). This article is weird; I can't tell if it's blaming the victims, or the colleges, or the institution of college altogether: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2015/10/yik_yak_enables_bullying_and_hate_speech_but_banning_it_solves_nothing.html http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2015/10/yik_yak...