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- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
But you uttered an opinion about moderation. So don’t dodge my point.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
Most? Well not my conversations.
Maybe it’s a smalltalk vs “largetalk” thing. Maybe most conversations are smalltalk. Talk that’s just friendly noise or whatever.
That is a territory with which I am pretty unfamiliar.
But ya, 2 totally different kinds of talk.
Maybe trolling constitutes a 3rd variety.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
Well there is no clean connection between the rule and reality (short of forbidden word lists anyway). It’s always a matter of somebody’s interpretation.
Some communities have rules like “don’t be a dick”, which seems implied.
Maybe rules are inappropriate here. At best a justification.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
Actually it ain’t. Good, catch
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
What if they got off topic. What would happen?
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
But it’s a very good guideline for people who, like moderators, have power and imperfect understanding. It’s saying, “when in doubt, err on the side of leat possible harm”. So that’s a good guide. Right?
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
be in the community but secretly …
Oh that will work out just fine.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
So you want to shape us.
How about just letting us talk?
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
But if they’re saying the wrong stuff then I get to hit them with my modhammer. Right?
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
Influence, narrative-control, hurting the out-group, control over a little domain. Those are good pay for some people.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
And sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.
What do you do when that happens? What guides do you look to?
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
If you trust this person to tell you, and everybody else here, how to speak then either your speech is worthless to you or this conversation is worthless to you.
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 2 weeks ago:
We like music for the same reason we like games, stories and successfully accomplishing tasks.
It’s the vibe that it evokes.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
Your mode of conversation is bassackwards and duplicitous. I’ll pass. Lol.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
Oh just make the statement that you want to make already. Dancing around it allusively is just weak.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
The form of language is dictated by the preferences of all those involved in the conversation, the conventions of their shared culture, and other context. For a person to insist that everybody involved bend to his sole preference in this is unrealistic.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
Both are making a demand, that you conduct yourself in a certain way.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
It’s a combination of what you want me to call you, what I want to call you, what the conventions of our culture suggest that I call you and what’s convenient to the context, actually.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
Knock yourself out.
But I find that convenience is the primary dictator of speech. Anything else gets awkward and exhausting.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
Your self-centeredness is absurd. We have better things to do than oppress you. Trust me in this.
We speak in whatever way seems best. And that is a personal matter. Respect that or not.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
To address the first one. You assume that everybody uses language the same way that you do. That conforming to your demands in this is as preferable for them as it is for you.
That’s a pretty gigantic assumption.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
That’s a large assumption, and a presumptuous demand.
Do no assume. Do not demand. Mind your manners.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
A pronoun is a word. I say that with 94% confidence.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
Speak this word or I’ll be upset
Wear this thing or I’ll be upset
You gotta admid it’s a pretty good parallel
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
Are you implying that a pronoun is an item of clothing?
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 weeks ago:
Demanding that a person speak a certain way is like demanding that a person dress a certain way.
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