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Everything is a dogwhistle.

• ceejayoz 8mo ago
  "This comment appears to dismiss the complexity of discussions about dogwhistles by claiming that 'everything is a dogwhistle.' This type of blanket statement can undermine the seriousness of genuinely harmful coded language, and can trivialize valid concerns about discrimination and manipulation in discourse."
  • NickHodges0702 8mo ago
    We've dialed "dog whistles" way back -- thanks for the feedback.
    • ceejayoz 8mo ago
      Just remember every time you tweak the defaults, the 90% of your site owners using those defaults suddenly have a significant shift in their moderation policy that they are themselves unaware of. (I moderated a vBulletin forum in the 1990s. This shit gets really, really, really hard, and no one is ever really happy with it.)
      • NickHodges0702 8mo ago
        Sorry -- should have been more clear: We are shifting the defaults on the demo site, not on respectify itself. Thanks for a great point, though. Finding the best defaults will be very important, and we can't tweak it like that very often if at all.
      • NickHodges0702 8mo ago
        >>(I moderated a vBulletin forum in the 1990s. This shit gets really, really, really hard, and no one is ever really happy with it.<< I feel that. I used to moderate the Object Pascal Compuserve forum. That was hard enough!
        • ceejayoz 8mo ago
          This one was for gamers. I’m pretty sure we created a few budding lawyers out of some high schoolers.