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Preliminary comment on tone and behavior in writing: Everything about the story, from the described details about what allegedly happened to the way those detai

Preliminary comment on tone and behavior in writing: Everything about the story, from the described details about what allegedly happened to the way those details are communicated, is infantile. That makes it very hard to treat the author as a reliable narrator about specific details. Anyway... > anyone could make an anonymous account, and then comment anything on anyone's profile Jesus christ. You built a platform specifically designed for targeted abuse. I know that you're still young, but one day when you're older I hope you come to realize that a platform for spreadings rumors about others is not an ok thing to want to build. You don't have the moral high-ground here. The only thing you accomplished was being a creep. This whole blog post shows an extreme level of immaturity that I really do hope you grow out of. Literally every line is absolute cringe. > this is that story. its really really fucking crazy. The craziest thing to me about this story is that everything in the story makes you look bad and yet you chose to post it anyway. You either: A) never realized that you were building a harassment platform despite being told this multiple times, which demonstrates a complete lack of awareness or B) thought it would be a good idea to build a harassment platform, which demonstrates a complete lack of empathy

philipov 7mo ago
I wish the people currently building the global terror nexus would have that mature realization.
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techjamie 7mo ago
I'm surprised at how few comments there are about just how creepy this is. Going to a university is not implied consent for random people to throw up searchable websites with your name and face, let alone allowing random, anonymous other people to attach anything they want to it in a comment section. I get it he was copying The Social Network, but just because it's been done before doesn't make it better now.
bodiekane 7mo ago
I'd rather live in a world where a student's website hosts an anonymous mean comment about me than live in the authoritarian nightmare of how the school officials, guards and police acted in this behavior. Tea is still available on the app store, which is a far more targeted harassment and slander app, than this one that was clearly more of a 4chan style "for the lulz" that no one would take seriously.
- BugsJustFindMe 7mo ago
  > I'd rather live in a world where a student's website hosts an anonymous mean comment about me than live in the authoritarian nightmare of ... False dichotomy fallacy. Also fallacy of emotive language. That is a deflection, not a rebuttal. > Tea is still available on the app store Whataboutism. Fallacy of relative privation. That is a deflection, not a rebuttal. Since we're talking about worlds we'd like to live in, I'd like to live in a world where people believe that it's bad to think harassment platforms are ok/cool/fun.
  - Ajedi32 7mo ago
    The manner in which the school got the website taken down was via an authoritarian nightmare, so it's not exactly a false dichotomy in this case. If not for the authoritarian nightmare the site might still be up. Though it's admittedly possible they could have eventually gotten the website taken down through less thuggish means.
    - BugsJustFindMe 7mo ago
      The false dichotomy is that the two scenarios are presented as the only two options when they aren't the only two options. The use of "authoritarian nightmare" is the emotive language.
      - bodiekane 7mo ago
        "Authoritarian nightmare" is an accurate description. Calling this student's project a "harassment platform" is misleading, emotive language.
1whizkid1 7mo ago
My intention was not to build a “targeted abuse” platform and thats not what was built either. “Abuse”, if you can call it that, was just a small part of the site. The main point was to make the social life more happening, which it did… people got to discuss things, confess to people, hangout and make posts with their friends For the “immature and infantile” part, i disagree with you on it. I do not believe someones style of speaking should have an effect on your interpretation of their words. Youre just doing yourself a disservice
- BugsJustFindMe 7mo ago
  > I do not believe someones style of speaking should have an effect on your interpretation of their words. It has an effect on interpretation of your character. That's unavoidable. Welcome to the real world, I guess.
- breakingcups 7mo ago
  It doesn't matter what your intention was, the point was that that was what it did. You didn't think hard enough about how people would use it given the (lack of) constraints and moderation you designed it with and you didn't take responsibility / accountability for what you had facilitated. Your response to this seems to be: "People need to be more thick-skinned, I would take it down if they asked & it's unfair that they escalated to the dean." as if that somehow invalidates the criticism you're receiving. It doesn't. The fact that you don't really own up to that shows a lack of emotional maturity which makes it hard for people to feel sympathy for you. Until you actually understand why people had problems with what you made, you won't get a lot of sympathy for how you were treated either. It's like those videos where some clueless racist spouting off garbage on the subway eventually gets punched by someone else. Yes, the assault is definitely "more" wrong. But you won't find a lot of people feeling sorry for the racist.
  - 1whizkid1 7mo ago
    Not looking for sympathy lol, just wanted to share a cool story
- sfink 7mo ago

philipov 7mo ago

I wish the people currently building the global terror nexus would have that mature realization.

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techjamie 7mo ago

I'm surprised at how few comments there are about just how creepy this is. Going to a university is not implied consent for random people to throw up searchable websites with your name and face, let alone allowing random, anonymous other people to attach anything they want to it in a comment section. I get it he was copying The Social Network, but just because it's been done before doesn't make it better now.

bodiekane 7mo ago

I'd rather live in a world where a student's website hosts an anonymous mean comment about me than live in the authoritarian nightmare of how the school officials, guards and police acted in this behavior. Tea is still available on the app store, which is a far more targeted harassment and slander app, than this one that was clearly more of a 4chan style "for the lulz" that no one would take seriously.

BugsJustFindMe 7mo ago
> I'd rather live in a world where a student's website hosts an anonymous mean comment about me than live in the authoritarian nightmare of ... False dichotomy fallacy. Also fallacy of emotive language. That is a deflection, not a rebuttal. > Tea is still available on the app store Whataboutism. Fallacy of relative privation. That is a deflection, not a rebuttal. Since we're talking about worlds we'd like to live in, I'd like to live in a world where people believe that it's bad to think harassment platforms are ok/cool/fun.
- Ajedi32 7mo ago
  The manner in which the school got the website taken down was via an authoritarian nightmare, so it's not exactly a false dichotomy in this case. If not for the authoritarian nightmare the site might still be up. Though it's admittedly possible they could have eventually gotten the website taken down through less thuggish means.
  - BugsJustFindMe 7mo ago
    The false dichotomy is that the two scenarios are presented as the only two options when they aren't the only two options. The use of "authoritarian nightmare" is the emotive language.
    - bodiekane 7mo ago
      "Authoritarian nightmare" is an accurate description. Calling this student's project a "harassment platform" is misleading, emotive language.

1whizkid1 7mo ago

My intention was not to build a “targeted abuse” platform and thats not what was built either. “Abuse”, if you can call it that, was just a small part of the site. The main point was to make the social life more happening, which it did… people got to discuss things, confess to people, hangout and make posts with their friends For the “immature and infantile” part, i disagree with you on it. I do not believe someones style of speaking should have an effect on your interpretation of their words. Youre just doing yourself a disservice

BugsJustFindMe 7mo ago
> I do not believe someones style of speaking should have an effect on your interpretation of their words. It has an effect on interpretation of your character. That's unavoidable. Welcome to the real world, I guess.
breakingcups 7mo ago
It doesn't matter what your intention was, the point was that that was what it did. You didn't think hard enough about how people would use it given the (lack of) constraints and moderation you designed it with and you didn't take responsibility / accountability for what you had facilitated. Your response to this seems to be: "People need to be more thick-skinned, I would take it down if they asked & it's unfair that they escalated to the dean." as if that somehow invalidates the criticism you're receiving. It doesn't. The fact that you don't really own up to that shows a lack of emotional maturity which makes it hard for people to feel sympathy for you. Until you actually understand why people had problems with what you made, you won't get a lot of sympathy for how you were treated either. It's like those videos where some clueless racist spouting off garbage on the subway eventually gets punched by someone else. Yes, the assault is definitely "more" wrong. But you won't find a lot of people feeling sorry for the racist.
- 1whizkid1 7mo ago
  Not looking for sympathy lol, just wanted to share a cool story
sfink 7mo ago