is an overstatement, the only reason there's no "user_inactivated" is because a search party would be sent for me and steve would probably find my address and just knock on my door one day asking where I went. I only ever show up now when someone @'s me, lil makes a post, or there's another influx and I get one of these or these or hey look another one because I can't help it my snark meters override anything else And yeah yeah yeah bad apples blah blah blah just mute them blah blah discussion blah blah but I just want to talk about how I'm a racist asshat blah blah blah but shit ya'll like I said before, I can just choose to not have to deal with people combing through my history and posting on shit from weeks or months ago telling me that I'm wrong/racist/dumb/angry/etc, and even if that last one is true, the choice is what makes it so FREEING. Plus if you mute #askhubski 1/3 of my front page disappears so there's that, hacame back
This is what I'm getting at, too. When racist asshats dominate everything, it makes it preeeetty fuckin' clear to POC that this looks just like reddit. I've been racking my brain for a week about what better things we can do to moderate out scum, I've been picking the brains of other users, I was talking to mk today, and the few ideas I have will piss off a number of people no matter what. I find it worth fighting for though, so I'll push ahead as much as I can, but then again I'm not asked to defend my stances on race relations every single day. Oh wait, a racist asshat made sure there's been a thread in my feed every day for a week to tell me white privilege don't real. He must be right.
piggybacking off that, 8bit isn't just being required to defend his stance on race relations... he's being asked to defend his own existence.
I'm pretty sure the answer is "stop engaging," and I'm pretty sure not enough people get that for it to be effective. If we all decided a shitty user was shitty and no longer fed that user attention, there wouldn't be such a problem. To be honest I've had that one we've been talking about all day triple-modded for so long that when people started to post about him, I had to go looking to figure out what the issue was. Yes you should stand up against someone's racism. No you should not make a habit of giving a racist an audience.
What if you didn't have to stop the asshat from being an asshat, but their comments were rendered invisible to you? Almost as if they were muttering to themselves…
It's a great idea that I like a lot, along with a block feature that mk and b_b were talking of earlier. My bigger issue is the image that is put out. The asshat we're talking about has made himself present in every post recently, so new users first experience is going to be... a vitriolic racist red piller. It would still be great, because as users will go on, they'll see that people have applied the Mutter option to him so much he never gets responses.... except from new users who don't know yet. Imperfect, but it's still a step that would do a lot.
Posts highly-muted people make are hidden from global, comments on others' posts are not though. But then again, false positives in posts on global are only slightly bothersome. False positives on highly-muted people having their comments would be a lot worse (and easily abusable).
I cannot blame you, bit. mk What if we didn't allow new accounts to post to askhubski? :D :D I'm mostly kidding, but also, god damn do new kids like to ask questions that have already been asked and aren't that interesting. Seriously I would care about your goal of the week if I cared about you, (pick a user at random). But I don't. I don't know you. I have no reason to care or to share except maybe a bunch of people will think my goal is cool and spoke me or comment vaguely flattering things about it at me. I know this is going to sound crazy but I don't get off much on other people's validation, especially when they're all hollow masks of a crowd. So I'm not going to share a goal just so other people circlejerk it. And also, person who asked that question: I don't mean my comments personally, I just picked the last askhubski post I could remember that wasn't something completely stupid like ("when's your birthday?"), seriously, please don't have a shitfit. I hate everyone posting in AskHubski right now and it has only the littlest bit to do with actual-you.
I sincerely miss you posting more often, and I fully support whatever mod decisions that are made that allow you to be a fully active and contributing member to the community here. If a space can't be made for you of all people I don't know who the hell else can call it their internet home. Also, I'm going to @ you in every comment I post from now on. You're on summer break now, yeah? How's it going so far?
Gratsi to you + everyone else that posted. Oh yeah I forgot this was Pubski. This summer I have: Fasted Lost 10+ pounds Picked up Skullgirls competitively, did not win a tournament
Played Ace Attorney Played Rune Factory 4 Picked up Roy for Smash, did win a tournament Worked I guess, whatever Read some books Went to New York Got a second job Moved to a better apartment Probably other stuff but it's not important
Just visited. Skullgirls is awesome, I've never done any competitive fighting game stuff besides Smash but the tutorial is so thorough that I pulled off a combo like half an hour after reading it. Also the design is amazing and soundtrack is bomb. Cool beans all around.
woah, you've been getting shit done! Second job in your field or a college stop-gap? I've always wanted to do a fast, but I get seriously bitter and snappy about everything after 6 hours without food and I can't conscienably do that to my friends. Happy (and hopefully peaceful) Ramadan, btw
It's kinda in my field, foot in the door, so to speak. I would say with fasting the intent is half of what makes it easy. If I go to work and forget my lunch, I'm going to be cranky and pissed for the rest of the day. But if I wake up in the morning and have the intent to fast for the rest of the day, it's significantly less stressful.
that makes sense, I'm gonna give it a try once I get home. I've not been eating nearly as much as I used to which (which was A LOT, 2-3 mission burritos a day a lot) but I think I've been priming myself for something a bit more rigorous. Did you do any caloric intake at all, or just water/assorted teas? And the foot in the door is way to go, congrats! Connections go a long way, and something tells me you've got some rad ideas that would merit the support they can provide.