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Yeah cuz X is fucking shitty, why would I want to give them any traffic?

by dallen33 19d ago

qwerpy 19d ago
“It’s ok to do bad things to people/things I don’t like” Feels good when you get to dish it out doesn’t it?
- mitxela 18d ago
  if kidnapping is so bad why do we put the Unabomber in prison
xp84 19d ago
Then... don't? If it sucks so much why do you need to read the tweets? Great take: "This private website is owned by a man I don't like, so I refuse to pay for it - or even give it the possibility to monetize my traffic with ads!" Still quite mainstream take: "... so I'll use an adblocker on it" Immature take: "This private website that I hate and boycott is also an important part of our culture, but the posts on it are too important and valuable to ignore, so I'll use a proxy to scrape it"
- ImPostingOnHN 19d ago
  You're confusing the site for the content on it. Some of the content is good, the site sucks and is run by a guy who seig-heils crowds. Even if the content sucked, your post has big "you want to improve `X`, yet you participate in `X`"[0] energy. 0 – https://kitzy.com/content/assets/images/we-should-improve-society.png https://kitzy.com/content/assets/images/we-should-improve-so...
  - xp84 18d ago
    Twitter is not society. It's a privately-owned web site, nothing more. Always has been. Participating in it is giving your bogeyman power.
    - ImPostingOnHN 18d ago
      I didn't say Twitter is a society, and it doesn't need to be. The joke in the comic is "Mr. Gotcha" trying to counter a desire by people to change things, by pointing out that those people participate in those things. Could be society, could be Twitter, could be anything. The comic takes this common internet argument to its logical extreme. The takeaway is that participating in something doesn't actually detract from efforts to change it. Also, to think that I, one person, can give or withdraw any of twitter's power is a silly proposition.
slig 19d ago
You're giving them attention, thus validating their existence and their numbers.

Yeah cuz X is fucking shitty, why would I want to give them any traffic?

qwerpy 19d ago

“It’s ok to do bad things to people/things I don’t like” Feels good when you get to dish it out doesn’t it?

mitxela 18d ago
if kidnapping is so bad why do we put the Unabomber in prison

xp84 19d ago

Then... don't? If it sucks so much why do you need to read the tweets? Great take: "This private website is owned by a man I don't like, so I refuse to pay for it - or even give it the possibility to monetize my traffic with ads!" Still quite mainstream take: "... so I'll use an adblocker on it" Immature take: "This private website that I hate and boycott is also an important part of our culture, but the posts on it are too important and valuable to ignore, so I'll use a proxy to scrape it"

ImPostingOnHN 19d ago
You're confusing the site for the content on it. Some of the content is good, the site sucks and is run by a guy who seig-heils crowds. Even if the content sucked, your post has big "you want to improve `X`, yet you participate in `X`"[0] energy. 0 – https://kitzy.com/content/assets/images/we-should-improve-society.png https://kitzy.com/content/assets/images/we-should-improve-so...
- xp84 18d ago
  Twitter is not society. It's a privately-owned web site, nothing more. Always has been. Participating in it is giving your bogeyman power.
  - ImPostingOnHN 18d ago
    I didn't say Twitter is a society, and it doesn't need to be. The joke in the comic is "Mr. Gotcha" trying to counter a desire by people to change things, by pointing out that those people participate in those things. Could be society, could be Twitter, could be anything. The comic takes this common internet argument to its logical extreme. The takeaway is that participating in something doesn't actually detract from efforts to change it. Also, to think that I, one person, can give or withdraw any of twitter's power is a silly proposition.

slig 19d ago

You're giving them attention, thus validating their existence and their numbers.