Thanks for the perspective. My perspective is that of a middle income suburban white dude. We should, and need to, be having these conversations. Online communities are just the places where people like you and me can have these discussions. Let's get to work.
Hubski is one of the few places where something like this is even a possibility. It was pretty upsetting to see the shitstorm that took place a few days ago. Making a statement about it is important, in my eyes, because this place is special and keeping it special means speaking out when unacceptable abuses come spilling onto our feeds. You can't necessarily make the idiots disappear, but at least you can say, "Hey, I'm on your side, even if that doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot." Keeping this community enjoyable to a diverse group of people is the only way we're going to get to see those viewpoints. Without those people speaking for themselves, and knowing that they matter to us, we're left to guess at what their perspectives might be. We all lose in that case.
What shit storm? Have only been spuriously checking the site this week as I wanted a break.
A handful of users left because the environment for them was too toxic, too negative, however you want to put it. It happened more or less right in front of all of us, but for the most part we didn't really notice until it was too late. I'm not strictly sure if everything went down on husbki alone, but certainly part of it did. Here's a snippet of the dramski, but it seemed to have been all over the place.
Fuck. 8bit and minimumwage? That's upsetting. I don't know if I can blame them. Sometimes being on the Internet gets my blood boiling as well. One of the reasons I've taken a break from the site the last few days is that I felt I was posting a little too much and having a few too many sticky discussions.
Yeah. Maybe they're going to start playing piano, or learn Go, instead of spending time trying to correct idiots on the internet, but for those of us that are here to wind down and write/read a little bit in a civil and thoughtful place, it's a loss. Hubski is a cool place, but fuck me if the internet doesn't have some serious problems.