Isn’t the Trump administration’s memo requiring Bitcoin to be accepted as assets for mortgage applications an example of this?

Paying extra taxes, just for fun

Shows up for me at least

As long as I’m noticed, really

Do that bizarre thing that Blind users do where they attach their Total Compensation to every post, regardless of topic.

Honestly, no one should complain about being blocked by anyone, regardless of the reason. It’s undignified.

This would be a good setting. I’d also like being able to only ALLOW qt’s from people you follow. It would help bring the temperature down in my opinion.

I’m sure this partially a function of the smaller user base, but the fact that it’s easy to see “all the posts” in your feed and then be done is a big advantage.

The site doesn’t stay “friendly” just because you have a bigger mob to harass people than your opponents, and you’re a fool to think that same mob won’t turn on you.

It feels to me that if you define “kinder and gentler” as “harasses people that i think are bad”, you’ve just described a place where your ingroup is more popular. I think expecting your cultural allies/near allies to only harass people who you think “deserve it” is asking for trouble.

Probably the right solution is still the old-internet/federation style thing where we don’t try to stick everyone in the same mixing pot, but “it’s still kind to harass people if they’re Bad” is some extreme Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party energy.

It feels to me that if you define “kinder and gentler” as “harasses people that i think are bad”, you’ve just described a place where your ingroup is more popular. I think expecting your cultural allies/near allies to only harass people who you think “deserve it” is asking for trouble.

Eventually you just have too many users who don’t care enough about mod drama to move, and the only people who care about moderating enough to form their own community are people who probably should’ve been banned anyway.

“Sub communities with their own moderation” works well if and only if the community is small enough to vote with its feet if modding sucks. This is why small forums and subreddits work well, but large subreddits and FB groups are a disaster.

I’m of two minds on the “locked away” aspect. On one hand, old forums (normally) were public once someone found them. OTOH, the way 2010s era internet encouraged hunting through someone’s past tweets to dogpile them was extremely unhealthy, and anything that makes that harder is good.

Maybe we weren’t meant to all be in one space. Maybe we should return to niche forums with 50ish regular users, w/ one or two resident assholes everyone sort of puts up with, instead of constantly warring factions of discordant cultural groups over virtual territory.

Personally I think we should keep around a feed that does that, just for fun

It’s a valuable professional lesson, in a roundabout way.

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