It really is incredible to live through Twitter under Dorsey and Musk and learn nothing from it. Blocked or not, bad actors turn your website into a cesspool. - ThreadSky

eyesontheright.bsky.social • 89 days ago

It really is incredible to live through Twitter under Dorsey and Musk and learn nothing from it. Blocked or not, bad actors turn your website into a cesspool.

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eyesontheright.bsky.social•89 days ago

And the more you let it go on the harder it is to reverse. You need to make a decisive call and stop it before it gets worse.

wickedsmartface.bsky.social•89 days ago

And not just because this particular person is who he is. They'll be others, and they'll straddle the line of what's "ok" and what's "not ok." It's important to draw hard lines, as much as possible.

odovaucer.bsky.social•89 days ago

"I will ban you if you break the rules, I will ban you if I don't like you, I will ban you if I'm playing Scrabble and I get a triple word score on a word which starts with the same letter as your username. I will ban you just to ban you." Lowtax got two things right, it turns out.

eyesontheright.bsky.social•89 days ago

Or we could ban him for harassment?

eyesontheright.bsky.social•89 days ago

Also I have no idea who Lowtax is lol.

odovaucer.bsky.social•89 days ago

But the point of the policy is you don't have to litigate the details of what constitutes harassment with people who will cry and scream over every potential loophole - you can just ban them because they suck.

odovaucer.bsky.social•89 days ago

Founder of something awful dot com, so responsible for much of what's good or bad on the Internet

eyesontheright.bsky.social•89 days ago

Ah. I feel like I missed that part of Internet history.

larrynlarryshow.bsky.social•89 days ago

The Nazi bar story is all you need to know.

insortediaboli.bsky.social•89 days ago

“Oh but he’s fine right now” is typically how you get to “and that’s how they let a massive harassment campaign “

keithzg.ca•89 days ago

The Silicon Valley mindset is all about making giant sweeping claims about how utopian it'll be when you don't have to put any effort in yourself, the tech will just scale endlessly, and then humming louder and louder to drown out the observable problems

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