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I'd link to the thread, but the farms are presently under ongoing DDoS attack at the behest of one 'Keffals', noted Twitterninja and the Fastest Ratio-er in the
by psyc 4y ago
I'd link to the thread, but the farms are presently under ongoing DDoS attack at the behest of one 'Keffals', noted Twitterninja and the Fastest Ratio-er in the Wild Wide Web.
They have been having some trouble with n00bs trolling. What do you expect when the media and, frankly, most of you spend 7 years telling everybody it's a 'trolling and harassing forum', i.e. lying through your blueteeth, just because you want to see the site gone. The thread I was going to link is the sole site admin literally begging the n00bs (people who've joined relatively recently and think trolling is cool) to stop trolling the subjects. There are a lot of joke threads and the Kiwis are ironic in the extreme, but that thread is not a joke thread. It's been Josh's stance forever: look and laugh, don't mess with them. If you're an asshole and you want to make dumb trolling plans, do it elsewhere. It isn't just the admin and the mods, either. Pretty much all of the OG users have always tried to quash trolling talk as much as they can. What the hell else can they do? They can't control what a few of their thousands of users do off-site.
Ask yourself if you want a global pseudo-public internet where any one of its critical private infrastructure companies can de facto censor the planet-wide web at the request of aggrieved Twitter mobs. Ugh. I don't think I have the energy for this today.
- seemack 4y agoTheir intent is all well and good but, from your description, it seems they are not capable of preventing this tool they've built for their own "fun" from being used from causing harassment and real life consequences for real people. It sucks for the people using it in the way it was intended but I would hope that they would agree their "fun" stops being fun when it's actively harming people.
- psyc 4y ago
- dmatech 4y agoLegally, there's no requirement that you moderate a forum so that its contents can't facilitate the commission of a crime (outside of a few things like DMCA anti-circumvention). If this were the case, everyone would have to be extremely careful when discussing anything dangerous, and most people would be hesitant to participate in the discussion at all for fear of being exposed to liability. In fact, even the person posting something like medical misinformation can't normally be sued.