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RIP social media. What comes next is messy
- pmdr 6mo ago[flagged]
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6mo agoI have a right to my own eyes and ears. It's not censorship to block trolls that I don't like.
- dontwannahearit 6mo ago[flagged]
- whattheheckheck 6mo agoNo its the Algorithms of the platforms that decide to treat the signal of the downvote as an indicator they ought to hide/censorship that information for the quality of the information garden whether it be for ad revenue or eudaimonia
- hashmap 6mo agoAnd yet I bet you leave your spam filter on instead of explaining to the spam what's wrong with it.
- jfengel 6mo agoYou still have the right to speak. You don't have the right to an audience.
- dontwannahearit 6mo agoAnd who gets to decide?
- javascriptfan69 6mo agothe people moderating the platform that you signed up to post on? what do you mean?
- dontwannahearit 6mo agoSee my comment below. On HN for example it isn’t necessarily the moderators, it’s the users with downvote power who can influence what everyone else sees. So the elite users are the ones who choose. Funny how our communities mirror the social structures we supposedly hate.
- javascriptfan69 6mo agosure but to other users that's a feature and part of why they're here it's like going to a cafe and complaining that everyone is drinking coffee
- mikestew 6mo ago“Elite users”? I don’t think that avoiding being an assclown long enough to collect 500 points to downvote status is a high bar to clear.
- behole 6mo agoAnd? Go somewhere else. I get elite-downvoted semi-regularly but that’s all in the game. You knew the rules when you came here.
- jfengel 6mo agoThe site owners chose to implement it that way. That's their right. If you don't like it you can go elsewhere.
- jfengel 6mo agoThere's no decision to be made. It's a right you don't have. The decision is where people put their attention. It could be anywhere. Statistically speaking, it won't be you.
- customguy 6mo agoI think the way blocking gets used and then bragged about to the personal bubble on BS (I wouldn't know about Twitter) is kind of pathetic, but at the same time, I do not mind getting blocked, or put on any of those shitlists, because that leaves me with the people who are either insane, kinda cool, or both.
- rexpop 6mo ago[flagged]
- konfusinomicon 6mo agoyou must be fun at parties
- whattheheckheck 6mo agoYou must not have empathy
- sandy_coyote 6mo agoEveryone please chill
- rexpop 6mo agoWhy?
- rexpop 6mo agoI don't party with fascists.
- customguy 6mo agoYou're not making a lick of sense either.