Goronmon

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by Goronmon 6y ago
At what point does Twitter or Medium cease to be a neutral discussion platform, and become more like a publisher that pushes a specific narrative (like Fox News, the New York Times, CNN, etc.). What does "neutral discussion platform&
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by Goronmon 6y ago
Facebook and Twitter should face the same liability as the New York Times. ...and every other site on the internet, including this one. Or IRC channels, or Discord, or search engines...
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by Goronmon 6y ago
It seems like a bit of a tautology to say that the owners of a platform can interact with that platform in a way no on else can...
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by Goronmon 6y ago
Lastly, does anyone know if Facebook and YouTube are also protected under 230? I imagine that GOP wants to make an example of Twitter but for the sake of consistency Facebook and Youtube should get the same treatment. My understanding tha
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by Goronmon 6y ago
This seems like the complete opposite of what "internet freedom advocates" would want, unless I'm missing some subtlety?
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by Goronmon 6y ago
Definitely. I mean, in the vast majority of cases, the moderators are just "regular users" who are given (or chose in the case of the creation of subreddits) power over other users. Even if the moderators are employees they are st
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by Goronmon 6y ago
Its' not about treating people like a jerk, just that you learn quickly to never trust a person at face value when they say "I didn't do anything wrong" because that's usually the first and most common phrase a pers
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by Goronmon 6y ago
Yeah, you definitely raise some good points here. When the people lose faith in those in power due to perceived capricious or opaque behavior there tends to be a lot of civil disorder. I would be really interested in figuring out how to c
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by Goronmon 6y ago
The 'criddler' word seems humorous. Is there any particular need to ban it outright? From my experience in the past, moderating doesn't scale at all. So you basically have to pre-empt issues that tend to lead towards requir
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by Goronmon 6y ago
That sounds like a job for public automated mod logs. I mean, I think that would be an interesting experiment, as I can't think of a large community that provides such data. But again, if you the underlying assumption is "the mo
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by Goronmon 6y ago
Just to provide the other side of this. Imagine seeing a post exactly like yours, literally word for word, with the same civil tone and all. Except the user in question had been banned for posting a tubgirl (its gross) image by a moderator
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by Goronmon 6y ago
Oh for sure, for some people that's definitely true. And honestly, the community itself self-selects for people for who that's true as well, since most reasonable people realize that being a moderator is actually kind of terrible
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by Goronmon 6y ago
What are you getting out of this? Not the OP, but most people just want to help a community that they are a part of and take a hand in making it better and helping members of the community. You have to remember, this issue is played on pr
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by Goronmon 6y ago
Maybe if mods were more transparent across all the subs. This is a common refrain I've heard going back well before Reddit ever existed. I helped moderate the Vault Network boards for a while back when they were a thing. Its hard to
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by Goronmon 6y ago
Why does it matter if a few volunteer mods manage a ton of subs? The concern basically goes like this... 1) Mod/Subreddit does something a user doesn't like (literally anything, doesn't matter how reasonable or trivial or t
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by Goronmon 6y ago
I met so many brilliant people at UCLA and in my professional career that had this twinge of impostor syndrome. What ended up happening is their less-brilliant but much-louder colleagues always got the promotions and always got the funding
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by Goronmon 6y ago
Does PeerTube have an answer to the discoverability problem yet? That's one thing I've noticed in the past. It works if you have a specific URL to click on for a video, but if I just want to "find" a video, that will be
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by Goronmon 6y ago
Do you have an article you feel was that you feel is framing the issue as "its not big deal for anyone to learn to code"?
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by Goronmon 6y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/learn-to-code I don't see anything examples in there showing journalist telling laid off people to "just learn to code". Unless you believe that writing stories about peopl
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by Goronmon 7y ago
Citizens would be able to vote with their feet and move to the best systems. This sounds great for the wealthy and those who don't have trivial issues like jobs or family tying them to one location. Sounds terrible for everyone else
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by Goronmon 7y ago
My admittedly limited experience with Google's offerings for Docs, Sheets, etc was they were noticeably inferior and limited compared to Microsoft's. In my opinion, its more likely that professionals who heavily use those tools ar
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by Goronmon 7y ago
Isn't one of his quotes "It's been out there for a long time. What do you have to lose?" though I guess he does followup by saying he will talk to his doctor before he takes it. But the overall sentiment makes me prett
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by Goronmon 7y ago
It's "irrational" to oppose an idea just because it comes from someone you despise. Giving up on them without further investigation doesn't seem wise at this point. I don't disagree with these ideas on the surfa
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by Goronmon 7y ago
"Have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers" and "Hopefully both will be used immediately. PEOPLE ARE DYING, MOVE FAST" Both seem pretty ridiculous when we don't even know if its effective at all,
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by Goronmon 7y ago
People are in opposition to the president promoting drugs with unproven effectiveness as a miracle cure for an ongoing pandemic. I didn't think testing drugs before giving them to people was considered "irrational" as you sta
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by Goronmon 7y ago
On the other hand, where are the photos? Where's the meticulous documentation? To trek all the way there to address this and then not take copious photos to share with the media? The article reads like they didn't even look for
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by Goronmon 7y ago
At least with eBay you know the product you’re getting is actually from the seller you bought it from. Wait, how is this different with eBay compared to Amazon?
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by Goronmon 7y ago
Patronizing and counter productive is giving people money for nothing. It's telling people that they're useless. I would disagree that a person "use" is defined solely by the type of job they have.
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by Goronmon 7y ago
Believing that the US somehow isn't a part of the international community is definitely a strange take that I haven't heard before. I don't really see the advantage to the US taking action completely separate from the rest of
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by Goronmon 7y ago
Providing food and healthcare is a "wish list item" during a pandemic?

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