…or you could just let people talk? People who engage with social features generally do so because they want to talk to other people. That carries some inherent risks.
…or you could just let people talk? People who engage with social features generally do so because they want to talk to other people. That carries some inherent risks.
No? Especially not in my case where it’s a share artefact that is intended to be shared with others on various platforms.
Having my game aesthetic + slur on a sharing artefact is a great way for people to think my game encourages that crap and to “cancel” the game.
Not that I agree with, or care about, cancel culture - but I don’t want people in general associating my game with slurs.
I’m all for swearing and saying funny things that are not pc, but I draw the line at harmful offensive content.
Do what you wish but do no harm unto others.
I get the desire to moderate your game, but how are words 'harmful' exactly? Especially random, throwaway internet spew. Harmful to your game's reputation, maybe. But to the people?
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> call your wife a fat sow everyday in earnest for a year and see if she isn’t granted a divorce for maltreatment.
Is this an appeal to the law or something? It's not a very good argument. Many things which are harmful are not illegal. Many things which are illegal are not harmful.
Also, that's not even how divorce works!
> no one is claiming words are physically harmful
"speech is violence" is a position that some people hold.
> if words had no power, we wouldn’t fight so hard to protect them from government abuse.
People fight hard for all kinds of nonsense. Historically, people have fought hard for things that didn't matter at all.
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Clearly you haven't been exposed to much of the underbelly of the internet. Words can translate to physical harm and actions in the real world, and do regularly
I grew up on the internet, I doubt there's any level of textual depravity I haven't seen.
This sounds like a disingenuous argument to actually try to argue for more racism. Every kid in the world has been called stupid by a classmate and knows that words aren't meaningless.
Who said that words are meaningless?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620564
>> if words had no power, we wouldn’t fight so hard to protect them from government abuse.
>People fight hard for all kinds of nonsense.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsense
I think you've failed to understand the words in question, rather than them being meaningless
I think you're a troll who should be banned from this site for wasting everyone's time.
Hm, can't really have engaging discussions with people who just don't understand what's being said. Can't force the information into their brains so we can do that either. Not sure which action you'd like me to take to improve this situation, then.
when I entered site, all bubbles contained dicks/balls and combination of these... so... someone found words that are not banned, but still abused forum in most primitive way ..
you're wrong, moderation is needed in ventures like this
The demo widget right now is botted with people spamming nonsense to the point of breaking browsers, much less the intended use. "let people talk" is not the same as "give disruptive people the tools to prevent others from talking"
Yea I think this was somewhat true back in 2001. With bots composing half the traffic of the internet, governments controlling massive social botnets and the polarization of politics everywhere, the internet became a full scale spam/hate fest
I don't think horrible people (eg racist, xenophobic, bigots) have the right to share space with good, kind people.
They have the privilege they forfeit the moment they try to hurt others. If they don't behave like cunts I don't care, but if they do, I'll use any tool I have at my disposal to bar them from the space they don't respect. They can talk to their kind in the nasty spaces anyway, so it's not like they're in the solitary confinement.
Nah, drive those horrible people out of social spaces. I want to talk to other people without racist assholes bumbling around.
Being a racist asshole carries some inherent risks too, like people choosing not to let you enter their spaces.
more than anything it’s just signal to noise ratios.
i’m so sick of people just adding dipshit noise to every single place they can and making it impossible to have normal ass conversation.
at the end of the day, these people need to realize the simple shit we realize in like 1st grade: if you’re an asshole to everyone around you, no one will want to be around you.
it really is that simple. but for some reason some of these people struggle to understand basic ass things little kids learn easily.
Unlike a playground assholes on the internet realize a couple things:
1. Theres a near endless supply of assholes
2. If youre loud enough and an asshole enough you'll find other assholes.
3. Your new found group of assholes can then go off and terrorize other people while attracting more assholes.
In a small local scene with several whatsapp groups, I put "don't be an edgelord" as a catch-all rule rule when I started a discord in the community.
Lo and behold, the EXACT person I had in mind when making the rule, moaned about it.
Works as intended.
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I didn’t say they weren’t.
I said they can fuck off from any spaces I have a voice in.
Social pariahs are people. Doesn’t mean I’m going to tolerate them around me.
You choose to be a social pariah, you live with the social consequences of that.
They should have food, water, shelter, and healthcare. They don’t get my attention, respect, or acceptance.
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Technically yes but that doesn’t mean they deserve a podium to spew their hate
edit: on second thought this is way too obvious ragebait
racist people don't get to talk in my spaces
If the history of the internet is to be any guide, it won't be the slog of racism that will shut something like this down, it will be a firehose of penis pictures.
Somewhere, someone will figure out how to create a bot that floods this with penis pictures, and that will be the end of it (or the beginning of the end, where a short period of anti-penis-pic defensive patches will be made until the software maintainers just give up)
Hot-dog-not-hot-dog
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No, it is a precise reference to an accurate description of a type of disruptive behavior.