I choose to bear witness instead. I'm afraid that, long term, a community spring up in a filtered corner of hubski. I'm not okay with that.
I feel the same. Whether or not he listens to anything anyone comments at him is irrelevant. Someone has to call him on his bullshit for the benefit of the rest of the community. That may not always or ever be me but I'd at least like to keep track of the shit he's spewing.
He muted me for a pretty tame comment that disagreed with him on feminism. I wouldn't be surprised if he does that with others. The end result is that his posts can only be commented on by those who don't piss him off so he's pretty much creating an actual echo-chamber/circlejerk for himself and his followers on the site.
He is turning out to being a great study on the possible negative effects and potential abuses of this site's moderation system.The end result is that his posts can only be commented on by those who don't piss him off so he's pretty much creating an actual echo-chamber/circlejerk for himself and his followers on the site.
I guess the hope is still that randomuserjoe who comes along and sees the comments will stop to think and perhaps realize that maybe userwhoshallnotbenamed is wrong and toxic to the community. Clearly nothing said to userwhoshallnotbenamed has or will have an effect.
Yes. In the past I've alluded to the concern of such a microcosm developing as an unintended consequence of the moderation tools on this website. That's why he's only one of three people blocked. Normally, I would do the same but for some reason I kept on finding myself compelled to antagonizing him, which I think was starting to make me look equally bad. So it's less of a "I don't want to see what he has to say" and more of a "I don't want his mud on me."
He muted me for suggesting in one of his posts that people who have a problem with him should mute him. So weird. I just check every couple days to see if he's given up. That's how I saw this thread that seems to be mentioned without being mentioned by OP. In it he dared anyone to find something racist he said and I know I had words with him for being racist but I'm muted. \_(ツ)_/ It doesn't matter anyway. I like coming here but I wouldn't say the daily goings on are important. Ignore isn't just a button, it's not caring made into a feature and people should just move along. It's not important if someone is an asshole on the internet.
Indeed. The internet is full of them. Still, it's important to be wary for people who are willfully malicious and could potentially bring tangible harm to others. Doxing, Swatting, IRL harassment, and God knows what else. I'm not saying that he is the latter, just that those are very real risks we all face by choosing to interact with each other on a public forum. It's actually why I would scrub accounts and create new ones every 3-6 months, why I never post photos of myself or my surroundings, tell people where I live, discuss the particulars of my job, and on and on and on. Hubski is kind of weird for me, because for the first time in many, many years, I see value in maintaining the same account. On the one hand, it's something I want to do because it holds an emotional value to me. On the other, I feel like the longer it exists, the more at risk I am.It's not important if someone is an asshole on the internet.
We're not really to that point here. You can visit my personal blog http://chrislivingstonart.wordpress.com and I don't feel I'm at risk of anything putting that out on my profile. Personally, I would've banned grendel a while ago but he's just being a prick so I understand not going to that length on mk or tng's part. I would rule my own social news alligator with an iron fist.