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My IMO is that if you're getting heat from users over the equivalent of an easter egg it doesn't really matter whether they're trolls or not, it's much easier t
by kevingadd 7y ago
My IMO is that if you're getting heat from users over the equivalent of an easter egg it doesn't really matter whether they're trolls or not, it's much easier to just remove or tone down the egg to make the problem go away. Having arguments about it is a waste of energy. Yes, it's kind of depressing or frustrating, but this is the nature of online discourse in 201x.
Whether or not the complaint is genuine is also much harder to figure out than "is it sufficient to replace this with a snowflake"
- userbinator 7y agoIt would've been far easier to just ignore it. As the old saying goes, "don't feed the trolls".
- adventured 7y agoIt's entirely unnecessary to make the problem (Santa hat) go away. The complaining person is displaying abusive behavior and should be treated as such. Warn them. Then ban them if they persist. You stand up to bullies or you drown in them. Mods can trivially and entirely disregard the non-problem (as it actually is). They're choosing not to and are making a community handling mistake in the process. The only proper response is to ignore the complaint as not meaningful enough to warrant action. Otherwise you'll eventually have to remove every possible symbol. Somewhere, someone's mother was murdered by a cog and they feel very, very sensitive about the matter. Abusive behavior in communities occurs at both extremes. You can be too sensitive in social situations in fact, to such a degree that you abuse other people with your need to control your environment specifically to your aggressively selfish satisfaction.
- spullara 7y agoIt amuses me that it is an 'Easter egg' another similarly confusing conflation of a Christian holiday with the commercialization of that holiday.