#I just really like out of context bfu
Damn it, Bucky, we’re hugging this out.
<i>*snarl, hiss, spit*</i>
YES. WE. *oompf*ARE.
you and your friend always sit at the table a couple down from mine and gossip in [insert language here], which happens to be a language i’m currently learning. i’ve been eavesdropping to try and improve my listening comprehension and oh my god are you actually talking about how hot i am??? AU
– (@authorkurikuri)
theres a brand of argument that I find very frustrating and that’s when neither side bothers to explicitly define their terms or even what specific stance they’re arguing for, causing the debate to endlessly go around in circles because both sides are completely misunderstanding the point the other is trying to make and they dont even realize that they’re actually both in complete agreement with each other on the topic
sure, i used to be a regular, but i literally haven’t been to this coffee shop in two years. how do you still remember my order?? AU
– (@authorkurikuri)
“I can’t stand moral absolutism. You know, there’s always that guy who wants to point out that Martin Luther King cheated on his wife– as if he obviously couldn’t have been a great person if he did something like that. Or someone will bring out an inspirational quote, and get you to agree, and then inform you that Hitler said it. As if a good thought couldn’t come from Hitler. Moral absolutism keeps us from learning from the past. It’s easy to say: ‘Hitler was a demon. Nazis were all bad seeds.’ That’s simple. It’s much harder to say: ‘Is that humanity? Is that me?’” From HONY
“‘Don’t feed the trolls’ also ignores an obvious method for addressing online abuse: skilled moderation and the willingness to kick people off platforms for violating rules about abuse. At one website I used to write for, everyone constantly remarked that we had the most amazing, thoughtful commenters. How did we achieve this? Easy: a one-strike policy. Complete zero tolerance. Did people complain? Of course they did. But it stopped people with bad intentions from being a part of the community, and it kept all the well-meaning people on their best behavior. It wasn’t perfect, but it was good. It also a took a ton of effort on the part of the entire writing team. We had to ignore the other popular sentiment of “don’t read the comments” (which is largely about trying to maintain sanity while staring at the void) and embrace a jaw-droppingly obvious fact: what truly derails any given thread or conversation lies not in a given response to trolls, but the very troll who is trying to derail in the first place. The second you treat them as a ‘constant’ or inescapable part of your community, you have given them permission.”
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DON’T FEED THE TROLLS, AND OTHER HIDEOUS LIES
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I miss moderation so much.
jinlinli 