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Would you call it the same when a bunch of your friends recommend you stay away from someone? Or the opposite, introduce you to someone they like?
by gspr 2y ago
Would you call it the same when a bunch of your friends recommend you stay away from someone? Or the opposite, introduce you to someone they like?
- themaninthedark 2y agoOnly for the most part; people online aren't my friends, there is not enough interaction/depth of interaction to get to really know them and being online tends to turn people into fuckwads(1). They just happen to be you're kind of fuckwads. (1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
- SanjayMehta 2y agoThat’s a stretch. It’s well accepted that people tend to be more unpleasant online, and text doesn’t translate nuance well enough to avoid misunderstandings, no matter how many emojis are assigned to the task.
- intended 2y agoBlocklists are used by women quite extensively, to block everything from specific terms to specific harassers and specific communities and topics.
- pmarreck 2y agoBeing put on a shared blocklist isn't a "stay away from this person"; it's a "tell these thousand people to stay away from these other thousand people regardless of actual basis, because 1 person got offended"