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by squigz 1y ago
The irony of deriding CoCs while reminiscing about doing things with "weird people" "Weird people" being discriminated against and harassed is why CoCs exist.
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by squigz 1y ago
In my experience, it absolutely does help. But everyone has their own experiences. > should see why you removed them, and again, a made-up "contract" will not be needed. It's not a matter of the action being transparent, i
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by squigz 1y ago
It's likewise tiring and depressing that you framed everybody who wants CoCs the way you did. > No. Then I'm not sure why it would be coercion for them to talk to the moderators about writing down the rules.
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by squigz 1y ago
Someone will say that that person shouldn't be bringing any sort of politics into it, so they should be removed, no CoCs needed for that. Then someone will point out that they might have this stuff on their Github profile, or website.
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by squigz 1y ago
I don't see how that is an issue with CoCs. Those people would still try this with or without a CoC - whether the moderators/maintainer acquiesce is the real issue, and, again, is separate from having a CoC.
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by squigz 1y ago
> silencing voices they regard as "problematic". I'm going to push past this extraordinarily bad faith framing. I'm going to assume you're referring to people who are made to feel uncomfortable or are harassed by
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by squigz 1y ago
A relevant blog post posted recently among the Nix drama https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/
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by squigz 1y ago
Having something you can point to and say "This is why you're being removed" often removes some headaches. Some people will claim it's unjustified, moderator abuse, etc, if you don't. At least with some rules, there
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by squigz 1y ago
It seems some people need to re-read the title and article and consider the words "heavy", "bureaucratic" and the like No, CoCs - or rules in general - are not inherently bad. HN has some, which the moderators and the co
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by squigz 1y ago
This seems like a non-issue, unless I'm misunderstanding. If failures can be used to help game benchmarks, companies are doing so. They don't need us to avoid compiling such information, which would be helpful to actual users.
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by squigz 1y ago
I don't understand how a scientist being awarded a Nobel prize in their field, using AI, does not add to AI's credibility as a useful tool?
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by squigz 1y ago
> the common assumption has historically been that the Internet giants like Google assumed the mantle of facilitating, and to a lesser degree, preserving, the digital commons A role Google was happy to fill for so long. We shouldn&#x27
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by squigz 1y ago
> Why would a criminal take time to comb through random, anonymous, uncategorized images of people to ambiguously identify someone who might not be home (and might not even have a house worth breaking into), when it’s much easier to just
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by squigz 1y ago
Pretty sure GP was being sarcastic. But in any case, there's no reason we can't recognize that Google and other such massively-influential companies are hugely different from a small business and act accordingly.
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by squigz 1y ago
Then we post on the Internet about how doomed we all are. Keep up!
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by squigz 1y ago
You're looking for a generic reason, I think, and there isn't and doesn't need to be one other than "people can desire their privacy for various reasons" Maybe publicizing where someone is every week lets criminals
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by squigz 1y ago
If someone asks you not to record them at their own event , and you do, you're an asshole.
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by squigz 1y ago
> There's also a big difference in my mind between, "You might be filmed on occassion" and, "A recording of this goes up on youtube every single week". And there's such a focus on the law and expectation of
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by squigz 1y ago
How can you ever be sure of that on any website that you don't fully host yourself?
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by squigz 1y ago
You can't overwhelm the user with 300 "Here's what you can do with your phone!" tips when they first start it, so maybe something like a push notification every few days telling the user about a couple features.
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by squigz 1y ago
In your last paragraph, you seem to rule out 2-3 separate approaches to moderation as non-conducive 1) We should have rules 2) We don't need rules 3) We should rely on moderator judgement How do you think moderation should be approache
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by squigz 1y ago
I like when the news takes a simple trend in a community and blows it out of proportion. I bet there's news stories talking about how the finger guns meme is actually an act of silent protest or some such.
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by squigz 1y ago
Maybe, but it seems that might have been their deciding factor: > despite the specific candidate being rejected as unsuitable by the moderation team, and agreement from SC that at least some of the reasons discussed were disqualifying
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by squigz 1y ago
> Also notably, you will find people with similar beliefs using expressions like "y'all" and other Southern US regionalisms, even if they're white Northerners. From my observations this seems to be intended as an act
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by squigz 1y ago
> Which is to say, they think it's inherently wrong to put people on the mod team who disagree with their political views, when they don't even moderate a space that's about politics. My reading of that is they think it&#x
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by squigz 1y ago
QWERTY with "proper" hand placement isn't too bad, but I've been typing like this since I was 4 years old and have never tried another layout, so I might just be missing out. Still, it took me more than a year to really
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by squigz 1y ago
Doing so politely is effective. But yeah, it's kind of shocking how often people are like "I hate this thing that person is doing" and I'm like "Have you asked them to stop?" and they haven't. Just... as
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by squigz 1y ago
Yeah, unfortunately I have to agree with you. It's just enough friction in flashing that I rarely do it.
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by squigz 1y ago
Well you can't say that for certain, yet...
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by squigz 1y ago
It's very basic customization of a tool you use all day for your job. This is a strange attitude to me coming from a programmer.

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