I feel rather certain that people have liked for exactly that reason on occasion.
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Without contextā¦ I know that, in the past, Iāve liked a comment like that simply based on how it was handled. Though I suppose that was back when the anonymization was a fairly new thing.
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Heās basically a Gamergate guy
Recently heās been arguing that technology is evil but it seems likely heās just trolling everybody
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i assume theyāve run the numbers? but it does seem they they might actuallyā¦ you knowā¦ try.
for me, the reason i return on a regular basis to that other place is not the small snippets of headlines that are sort of like articles which i could pretty much get from an rss feed of other sites posts, or even the ( increasingly rare ) specific twists of authors ( yes, even cory ) ā but the community.
and, fwiw, a community that preceded discourse.
maybe other people only go for the front page, fine. let them. give me access to the āblogā format, the ascii format, and the bbs ad free for a patreon donation. enhance discourse to provide donation supported bbseses so that people can (try) directly supporting that place, this place, and other places without ads or out of pocket expenses. i mean, why not?
try it for six months without ruining the experience with ads first.
and yet, thatās not the route theyāve chosen to go. itās a bit frustrating. and i do have some sympathy for ken for having to defend that position as part of his paid employment.
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I feel rather certain that I have done so on occasion!
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So, popped over there and it looks like Ken pruned all his dickishness?
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I like discourse, too, but this is my problem with him, full stop. Heās dismissive of the reality that technology canāt fix our problems alone. It can be part of the solution, but hisā¦ ego that he can safely dismiss history and social relations, because technology will fix us is a dangerous road. He is contemptuous of anyone who points out that there is no easy fix to humanities problems, other than putting in the hard work to change things.
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Heās also arguing that he has the solution to our woes, and that historians are garbage people who donāt understand how humanity works. Is he trolling if he really believes that nonsense?
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Iāve absolutely liked comments where the ban hammer has finally been dropped on some well deserving asstroll whose exile was long overdue; Popo, Max/JimJim, Arch Stantonā¦
And on much rarer occasions when those aforementioned asstrolls have self immolated, I liked certain comments too: Acer/Boris, Unshaved Weirdoā¦
Yes, I am glad (or at the least, relieved) when bad faith actors are removed from the community, especially if their comments/presence only contributes to the needless negativity and discordā¦
I donāt feel bad about that, and itās unlikely that I ever will.
But that ugliness the other dayā¦ I didnāt comment or ālikeā any of it; it was the epitome of Not Cool.
Regardless to how anyone may personally feel about Ken, for whatever reason, heās still far more reasonable than both Jason and Jeff combined. (Yes, I know thatās STILL a low bar.)
At least he usually attempts to be fair in his decisions, which is more than I can say for the other two.
Speaking as someone who has more experience with trolls than I ever wanted, I honestly donāt think he actually believes that; dude is fucking trolling and abusing his powers to do it, IMO.
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Jason did.
Ken is still touchy. I donāt reccomend poking him about it.
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Itās really hard to know. I think maybe it started out as a trollish position, but I think at least some of his real views are also popping up as well.
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Yāknow what?
Iāve gotten to the same point with Jeff Atwood that I have with all the famous bigots and fear-mongers out there who make a tidy profit from perpetuating hate and ignorance; I donāt even care if he means it or not.
The damage heās doing is the same, regardless.
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Ah, thank you.
Sanitized for our protection, such as it were. Wonāt poke the pine wolf as I rarely even stick my head in there now. Doesnāt feel like home anymore.
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I canāt agree with this more. Just like the people who voted for Trump for āeconomicā reasons or for the lulz, or whatever. The damage is the same, whatever their thin justifications. The truth is their active indifference is just as destructive as if they were voting for white supremacyā¦ because they are voting for it.
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Insert the usual Goat quote about āwhat historians call people who supported the Nazisā here ___ .
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Geez, that dude was griping about moderation issues when I left there, what is it, three years ago now?
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I was thinking that a moderation gripe thread full of flags is a bad sign.
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Well, shit. I just discovered than the annual BBS badges over there donāt increment unless you post. So I shall have to remember to post over there at least once a year. Welp, Iām covered for 2019 now.
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