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tla  ·  3176 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Warning signs for "blocked/filtered poster ahead"

Not a game.

People getting to make posts accusing other users of being pedophiles and rapists as retaliation to being called out for shitty behavior isn't a game. This is what is happening. Bad behavior here has escalated this far and it's not getting better by waiting.

And since here's no hope of that stuff being removed from the site so I would like to be able to avoid having to see it.





user-inactivated  ·  3176 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    People getting to make posts accusing other users of being pedophiles and rapists as retaliation to being called out for shitty behavior isn't a game.

No offence, but it sounds way too serious than it is. Now, granted, I haven't seen such behavior here before - even the most heated debates I observed have been argumented and portioned to make sense - and, granted, it shouldn't be tolerated if meant seriously.

But then, Grendel only called me out on that because he wanted to "strike back", knowing perfectly well he has nothing on it. He wanted to make the point that people mustn't be accused without proof... if their username contains "Grendel". That point, he made. People responded to him, which I don't approve. He wanted attention, and he got it, from people who believed that he must have been meaning what he said - the same people who know what kind of behavior he's infamous for.

I don't approve of such behavior, either, but what we did as a collective is stirred the pot further by telling the guy "Well, if nothing else works, here's how you get to us". He's proven himself incapable of changing his mind once his ego was hurt or argument attempted to be proven wrong (which is the same thing). The best we can do, in the situation, is not feed.

throwmeawayhubski  ·  3176 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have to deal with more of your drama than anything Grendel actually says because I have him blocked and am smart enough to avoid his crap when I see it. You're making such a big deal out of nothing and I'm about to block you on my real account just because you are so god damned whiny. Grow up. Not everything revolves around you. I'm not saying you're lazy, I'm saying you're overly sensitive and a cry baby.

j4d3  ·  3174 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So brave.

j4d3  ·  3176 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Comments by people one has filtered should definitely be less visible. I missed the post in question. Sounds interesting/horrible.

user-inactivated  ·  3176 days ago  ·  link  ·  
j4d3  ·  3176 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting enough that I gasped when I opened that link.

I can see why I missed the post. Filtered. Big time.

user-inactivated  ·  3176 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's not common on Hubski, I see. Good to know.

See another of my comments in the thread if you want to know what I think of it all.

j4d3  ·  3176 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Reasonable. Very much agreed that engaging with that person is a mistake.

cgod  ·  3176 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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