About Moderation

[Formula72]

I’m kind of the belief that the internet + politics is a wretched combo for a lot folks with addicted personalities and it seems like it’s the wild west right now as we are still relatively new to understanding the damage it does. To me, the self nuking or account anon feels similar to drugs or alcohol behavior in terms of the person trying to escape from it for their own self interest. Just walking away after 100k posts and a decade of your life spent would seem pretty difficult.

[Trolly]

It’s fine if it doesn’t risk breaking the site. Deletions ought to be out of the question. It’s just going to be another way for the perma-grievance squad to fuck with this community.

[Formula72]

Yeah, I dont want to influence any changes because I have no idea what would be healthy for the site. I just read your last sentence and my impression was that just walking could possibly be a far more challenging task than we give.

[Rivaldo]

[Trolly]

That’s fair. Maybe this is more of an addiction issue than I realize.

[6ix]

@Crunchyblack

6ix was a value factory in the crypto thread for literal years

Thanks lol but the whole thing is too dumb to even deserve your rebuttal. Here’s an example of content:

@6ix

(anyhow)

Here’s a story that just popped in my mind, and if people say ‘holy fuck that doesn’t sound true’ well that’s the point, so make a leap of faith:

In the aughts and early teens I lived on a third floor apartment facing a residential street (north and western in chicago if you’re the type that likes to follow along on google maps). So it was a super busy street during the day but empty at night, including parked cars.

One night I was standing at the window (the entire wall facing the street was three big windows) and saw a black SUV just abruptly turn and smash into a parked car. Like so:

The yellow ‘woman’ would be the other witness, and note that we’re on the far side of where the SUV sustained damage.

There were only three parked cars on the street (they had to be moved by 6 AM or whatever like how it works in big cities, so people didn’t bother) and to this day I don’t know if the person was DUI or if they intentionally rammed the car. The driver wasn’t careening around as they came down the street, they just abruptly turned in to the car as if a poltergeist pulled the wheel at that exact moment. Then they pulled out (I heard a crunch) and hit and ran.

So that’s the premise, and I’m looking like wow, pondering if I should snitch. A few minutes later the yellow woman comes out so I go down, thinking it’s the owner. But she says no, she just saw the whole thing as well, and we double checked that we didn’t imagine a black SUV ram into the side of a parked car with its right front bumper, almost as if it was intentional.

A few more minutes the owner comes down to actually move their car and the kid is freaking out because the damage was severe, like, the door was caved in and the wheel looked bent as if the axle might’ve snapped (foreshadowing #2, once again note that the two witnesses, me and yellow, didn’t actually see the extent or specifics of the SUV damage).

Another few minutes and a cop arrives, and we give our statements. I assumed that was that but the cop asked for my information in case they find the driver or car and need a follow-up statement. Yellow woman is a good citizen and agreed but I’m hemming and hawing, half because of some loose no-snitching policy and half simply because it was feeling like an impending hassle. As I’m pondering and trying to figure out if my statement would still help regardless, a black SUV, with it’s front right bumper and headlights and wheel well just fubar, turns the corner, like so:

The cop looks at us like he’s waiting for us to tell him what to do. He asks if that’s the same SUV, we’re the witnesses, it’s our call to make. We furrow our brows for a few seconds an give him the green light, fuck it, I mean, a black SUV with a fucked up right front end just rolling down what is a an empty street at 3 AM about a half hour later, and no, we didn’t see the specific damage but heard the crunch and saw everything else and, come the fuck on right…

As you’ve probably guessed, it was not the same SUV.

@jmakin

This isn’t about a low-content gif/jpeg reply. I mean, come on, Didn’t Read Lol is a tried and true classic.

It’s that the mf clearly actually didn’t read it, and just assumed I was making some crazy conspiracy theory about why Robbi must be cheating, when, in fact, I was making an analogy about perception with a story that made me look like I could easily be wrong about Robbi cheating. He saw a bunch of words and mspaints and just went for it lol. That’s like the shittiest shittastic of shitposting.

[6ix]

@Trolly

perma-grievance squad

You’re the perma-grievance squad. You’re still doing it right now.

[goreo]

[6ix]

@econophile

6ix’s post got a two hour silencing because it was very offensive and not in line with my view of the community’s values. It didn’t get a full day because it wasn’t directed at anyone in particular. I’ve given posters a chance to edit their posts without further moderation when they use a slur as part of a post that had some redeeming value. But the entire post was the problem here, so that didn’t seem like a good option.

Btw would you care to expound on this?

If it helps, pretend like I’m not your small child and instead a reasonably intelligent adult who is your peer.

[econophile]

Calling something autistic as an insult is offensive and bigoted

[6ix]

The ‘and bigoted’ edit addition was essential imo, really tied the sentence together there.

[6ix]

@econophile

Calling something autistic as an insult is offensive and bigoted

Ok so the advice on what to pretend didn’t work out I guess.

Yes I know you considered it an insult, the point was asking how and why you arrived at that conclusion.

[6ix]

p.s. And I guess even more importantly, why you felt the spirit of the post didn’t deserve any respect?

[otatop]

@6ix

Yes I know you considered it an insult, the point was asking how and why you arrived at that conclusion.

Go ahead and explain how

For future reference can I get a list of threads that are not included in the Adults With Autism Support Group?

is not an insult.

[6ix]

I’m not sure that’s how it works.

[econophile]

I’m not sure exactly what you mean, but you only got silenced for 2 hours (instead of 24) for this post

[alex]

@6ix

If it helps, pretend like I’m not your small child and instead a reasonably intelligent adult who is your peer.

Perfect string of posts by you that followed this one.

[otatop]

So your intent was to compliment everyone who cares about moderation by calling them autistic?

[6ix]

@alex

@6ix

If it helps, pretend like I’m not your small child and instead a reasonably intelligent adult who is your peer.

Perfect string of posts by you that followed this one.

Nah I’ve had better but I’d give them a solid 9 out of 10.