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I mean, this guy seems absolutely clueless. Anyone with even the slightest social awareness would know this site is going to result in hurting people and peopl

I mean, this guy seems absolutely clueless. Anyone with even the slightest social awareness would know this site is going to result in hurting people and people are going to really dislike him for making it... and further his own conduct is super immature (wtf is [0])... He basically made a harassment service, complete with allowing anonymous posting? Definite "FAFO" moment. I don't feel a shred of sympathy for his situation. When you build social technology, you have a responsibility to put some serious thought into what the social effects are of what you're producing. Every feature will have social and psychological implications for the people using the service. If you don't care about that, you especially shouldn't even be trying to make social-related software. [0] https://monyatwu.com/blog/iitsocial/pic7.png https://monyatwu.com/blog/iitsocial/pic7.png

standardUser 6mo ago
I find it hard to blame the young ambitious teenager and much easier to blame the grown-ass adults in supervisory roles who apparently can't cite a single violation by name and later violently steal a kid's phone. The kid might have some things to learn, sure, but the adult behavior is what I would call "super immature".
- deleted 6mo ago
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- margalabargala 6mo ago
  I agree about the adults but I can blame both. The teenager is on a trajectory to become a very capable person, technologically. They are also behaving like a sociopath and may well be on a trajectory to cause an awful lot more harm than good in the world. This event could have been a great teaching moment if it was handled by an adult with the capacity to execute on it. Everyone sucks here and the future is.worse for.it.
- LastTrain 6mo ago
  I’m actually pretty tired of young ambitious assholes who build themselves off of other people’s misery, and I choose to not celebrate it. That said, the university overreacted.
- luckylion 6mo ago
  the "young ambitious" horrible human being. but his "parents are in the army", so it's all good.
  - 1whizkid1 6mo ago
    That’s harsh don’t you think?
- porridgeraisin 6mo ago
  The admin behaviour is expected in the Indian context. See my other comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668009
1whizkid1 6mo ago
honestly, i do not get the hurting people thing. like ok, i do get it, but i just feel like people should be more thick skinned in general, people have said a lot of stuff about me too... but i just dont care. and like ok, if you do care, just report the post, i would have taken it down. why do you need to call the police and tell the dean to kick me out? that's just very malicious. and i mean i kind of get why people were writing bad stuff about people like these
- M95D 6mo ago
  Hurting with words via live speech is one thing. A website amplifies it and makes it permanent. When people say stuff, only other people around them hear, and even then it can be denied. When people write things online, what they write is public for everyone to read, and it's permanent, forever screenshotted and reposted.
- kennywinker 6mo ago
  The irony is this blog post is a massive self-own. Without a doubt, for the rest of your life some percentage of people you interact with will google you and read this post and close a door you wanted to go thru in your face. But at least it was your own choice, and it’s based on truth. For everyone who got slandered on your site it wasn’t their choice, and it may not even be true.
  - 1whizkid1 6mo ago
    And door that would be closed because of this blog is not one i would ever want to get in anyways.
    - kennywinker 6mo ago
      We’ll see.
- pavel_lishin 6mo ago
  > if you do care, just report the post, i would have taken it down. But people explicitly asked you to take things down, and you refused from the very start.

standardUser 6mo ago

I find it hard to blame the young ambitious teenager and much easier to blame the grown-ass adults in supervisory roles who apparently can't cite a single violation by name and later violently steal a kid's phone. The kid might have some things to learn, sure, but the adult behavior is what I would call "super immature".

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margalabargala 6mo ago
I agree about the adults but I can blame both. The teenager is on a trajectory to become a very capable person, technologically. They are also behaving like a sociopath and may well be on a trajectory to cause an awful lot more harm than good in the world. This event could have been a great teaching moment if it was handled by an adult with the capacity to execute on it. Everyone sucks here and the future is.worse for.it.
LastTrain 6mo ago
I’m actually pretty tired of young ambitious assholes who build themselves off of other people’s misery, and I choose to not celebrate it. That said, the university overreacted.
luckylion 6mo ago
the "young ambitious" horrible human being. but his "parents are in the army", so it's all good.
- 1whizkid1 6mo ago
  That’s harsh don’t you think?
porridgeraisin 6mo ago
The admin behaviour is expected in the Indian context. See my other comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668009

1whizkid1 6mo ago

honestly, i do not get the hurting people thing. like ok, i do get it, but i just feel like people should be more thick skinned in general, people have said a lot of stuff about me too... but i just dont care. and like ok, if you do care, just report the post, i would have taken it down. why do you need to call the police and tell the dean to kick me out? that's just very malicious. and i mean i kind of get why people were writing bad stuff about people like these

M95D 6mo ago
Hurting with words via live speech is one thing. A website amplifies it and makes it permanent. When people say stuff, only other people around them hear, and even then it can be denied. When people write things online, what they write is public for everyone to read, and it's permanent, forever screenshotted and reposted.
kennywinker 6mo ago
The irony is this blog post is a massive self-own. Without a doubt, for the rest of your life some percentage of people you interact with will google you and read this post and close a door you wanted to go thru in your face. But at least it was your own choice, and it’s based on truth. For everyone who got slandered on your site it wasn’t their choice, and it may not even be true.
- 1whizkid1 6mo ago
  And door that would be closed because of this blog is not one i would ever want to get in anyways.
  - kennywinker 6mo ago
    We’ll see.
pavel_lishin 6mo ago
> if you do care, just report the post, i would have taken it down. But people explicitly asked you to take things down, and you refused from the very start.