Bluesky Can't Take a Joke (wired.com) 211
On Bluesky, the joke's on you if you don't get the joke. The social network has become a "refuge" for those fleeing X and Threads, but its growing pains include a serious case of humor-impairment. When Amy Brown jokingly posted she was "screaming, crying, and throwing up" about price differences between Ohio and California Walgreens, literal-minded users scolded her for exaggerating. Brown, a former Wendy's social media manager who got banned from X after impersonating Elon Musk, puts it simply: "We're both speaking English, but I'm speaking internet."
This clash stems from Bluesky's oddly mixed population: irony-steeped Twitter refugees mingling with earnest Facebook transplants and MSNBC viewers who took the plunge after seeing the platform mentioned on shows like Morning Joe. "It's riff collapse," says cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky, describing how her obviously absurd Oscar post triggered sincere movie recommendations.
This clash stems from Bluesky's oddly mixed population: irony-steeped Twitter refugees mingling with earnest Facebook transplants and MSNBC viewers who took the plunge after seeing the platform mentioned on shows like Morning Joe. "It's riff collapse," says cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky, describing how her obviously absurd Oscar post triggered sincere movie recommendations.
This is "social media" (Score:5, Interesting)
I sometimes wonder if, 50-100 years from now, people will look back at this era and marvel at how we somehow expected social media to not invariably devolve into a steaming pile of crap.
Re:This is "social media" (Score:5, Interesting)
I am much more concerned with archeologists stumbling over the data on there and thinking we were all this stupid... you know, like people today think people were stupid in the middle ages for being illiterate (which back then meant not being able to read latin, the scholar language).
You know how historians operate, right? Everything they find is put into context with other things from the same region and area to try and paint a picture. Getting close to the truth with incomplete data and so forth.
Now if someone stumbles over Idiocracy in a thousand years, that alone should not make them judge our whole era... but if you add the VAST data trove that is social media to that, it's gonna corroborate a LOT of that movie.
Re:This is "social media" (Score:4, Insightful)
Given how much bitrot has occured in recent years, and how much censorship is happening currently, I expect archeologists looking back on our era are going to find a whole pile of nothing.
There's no archival storage format in existence that could store all of the current internet's data, let alone keep up with its ongoing day-to-day changes.
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I mean, if all the data is in one place you wouldn't be called a "data archeologist", you would be called an "archivist"
Data archeologist implies the "digging up" (maybe literally) of data from long lost places. Perhaps a personal backup in an old house or an intact hard drive from a garbage dump.
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Youtube is a horrific mixture of censorship and insufficient database power just randomly dropping posts.
Conversations are basically swiss cheese there.
I get notifications for messages that are gone.
I get notifications from discussions and when I return, I have no idea what I said because my own posts are gone.
Sometimes, I can figure out it was censored.
Sometimes, I can break the post into smaller posts and use synonyms to avoid censorship.
Sometimes, I have *no idea* why a completely innocuous post is gone
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Youtube turned into a steaming pile of crap when they started AI censoring things to the point that people have to bleep their own content. It doesn't make any sense because anybody watching it still knows what was said. There's some video somewhere with some feminist or something talking about the old feminist cliche "all sex is rape." When she uses the phrase, she has to censor "sex" and "rape," and in the closed captioning it comes out as "all s*x is r*pe." They similarly censor words like "gun", "asshol
Re: This is "social media" (Score:2)
The Library of Congress used to back up Twitter, but decided that it was either too much or not worth it back in 2017:
https://www.npr.org/sections/t... [npr.org]
Their last scraping of /. was 2023: https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN... [loc.gov]
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Your concern is that future historians might assume you were stupid? You're not concerned that there will be no future historians? Perhaps the problem then is that you are stupid.
"...it's gonna corroborate a LOT of that movie."
As it should. You're worried that people in the future will have a clear picture of their past. This is what narcissism looks like.
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Re:This is "social media" (Score:4, Insightful)
I'd say there's a difference between not having a sense of humor and not having a "Twitter sense of humor". You have to acclimate to the culture on a different site - there's really no reason to assume Bluesky would have the same culture as Twitter - presumably it wouldn't because otherwise people would still be on X then?
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Possibly so.
I just find it best for my life to avoid social media altogether.
Never had it....never will.
All my friends that need to know where I am...know where I am and what I've been
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Hey, I think we agree on this - I've never been on FB, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, whatever. I stopped seeing benefits after forums I guess. I'm also someone who feels like if you're actually my friend you can at least text or e-mail with me. If you can't be assed to do that, I guess we don't have much of a relationship then. And yes - we try and meet up IRL too.
Re: This is "social media" (Score:2)
There are actual.scientific studies demonstrating the humorlessness of the right.
Comedy is based on subverting expectations. Right-wing "comedy" is about meeting expectations. If you are rehashing the same tired old tropes over and over, that's not comedy.
Only right wingers need comedy explained to them...
Re:This is "social media" (Score:5, Interesting)
Social media started as a steaming pile of crap, it was always a race to the bottom. Twitter's "innovation" was literally limited message lengths, a "feature" they eventually removed. Foursquare's "innovation" was to post twitter messages automatically! Social media has never been about anything other than greed and exploitation. Devolving not required.
But yeah, plenty will look back and wonder how we didn't see this coming. Hindsight works that way.
Mod this... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Sounds like you're a humorless BlueSky user.
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Re:Mod this... (Score:4, Funny)
Great example of the kind of crap you don't get on Blue Sky - people armchair diagnosing you with autism.
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Great example of the kind of crap you don't get on Blue Sky - people armchair diagnosing you with autism.
I wasn't armchair diagnosing you. I was insulting you and your general lack of humour and inability to understand the term edgelord.
Actually ... the inability to understand anything given your reply failed to understand my post too. No worries, I'll explain things to you using short words going forward.
Re:Mod this... (Score:4, Insightful)
What evidence is there that the OP doesn't know the difference?
Well, there's the fact that OP apparently described the following as "edgelord shitposting":
Amy Brown jokingly posted she was "screaming, crying, and throwing up" about price differences between Ohio and California Walgreens
I think most people would, as GP did, describe that as hyperbole. Maybe even stupid, declasse hyperbole about an obvious effect of cost-of-living differences at a discount store chain. If there was a lot more damning context, that should have been quoted instead; but the quote in TFS fails to meet my threshold for either "edgelord" or "shitposting".
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No, you are confused, I wasn't talking about what she said. I was talking about Twitter in general. It's full of Nazis and Elon Musk worshipping edgelords, but I repeat myself. He has tuned the algorithm to make sure stuff like that gets onto your feed.
Invite them all to join SlashDot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Invite them all to join SlashDot (Score:5, Funny)
Great place if you can't take a joke.
Only an insensitive clod would celebrate this.
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Only an insensitive clod would be naked and petrified.
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I *CAN* take a joke, you insensitive clod!
What did anyone expect? (Score:3)
When you market yourself as the alternative offering, you are going to get some alternative thinking followers.
Glad she was criticised (Score:4, Insightful)
Far too many people - usually americans but its spreading elsewhere in the english speaking world - these days think overdone "ironic" hyperbole is a valid substitute for a sensible or amusing comment. Its not , its juvenile, cliched and dull.
Re: Glad she was criticised (Score:2)
I think it's largely a millennial thing. It dies with them. It was the language of Tumblr and other millennial favorite networks.
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Wtf are you talking about? I'm not american nor am I a trump fan, but apart from that your strawman nailed it.
Moron.
Pointless post (Score:3)
It is like any other social media. After muting words and accounts you do not want to see and with active curation of the timeline, the content can be rather nice and center on your interests.
Besides, the default Bluesky is only one implementation of the base protocol and it can be forked into oblivion.
Feels like people who complain about the content on social media simply have low agency.
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I just wish they had some more powerful blocking options, now. Like, I don't want to see any posts on which I cannot comment.
Well, that's not all I wish. I wish I could post images reliably. It works occasionally.
Re: Pointless post (Score:2)
"don't want to see any posts on which I cannot comment."
The inconsistency of Reddit pages is why I despise that platform and think it's a trash place for discourse. The rules keep changing from page to page. 60% of the time you comment, it pretends like it's going to work, then the comment gets removed because your reputation with the local Reddit fiefdom hasn't been established.
Like-minded? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Generally, people don't like hate spewed at them. The real question is why people want to be on platforms at all.
The value of forums, "platforms", is for people to share common interests, social platforms are not "echo chambers", like-mindedness is an inherent property these tools. The problem is what the common interests have become, and sadly the common interests of today are hate of other people. This is not because people have changed, it is because propagandists have learned to exploit social media,
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Why would you want to be on a platform with only a bunch of like-minded individuals? Understanding begins with hearing something you either haven't heard before, or don't necessarily agree with, and trying to understand where they're coming from. The last thing we need is more echo chambers.
Stop lying asshole. No one is buying your shit. You and people like you should be in jail. Retard.
That's what "discourse" with those with opposing viewpoints looks like on X these days. Fuck that.
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Re: Like-minded? (Score:2)
Maybe you're too stupid to understand intelligent productive discourse. Stop being a cuck for the criminals you vote for.
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So, that's the type of discourse that breaks you out of your echo chamber and engages you in productive conversation?
who cares? (Score:2)
Somebody didn't take a joke on a twitter clone? This is news?
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WE COULD USE HTML TAGS... sarcasm and joking.
It would be hard for a teenage maturity to comeback with "I was being sarcastic" when they failed to tag their sarcasm and that was an easy feature to use. Same with joking. Sure people would use the stuff ironically but that at least would be raising the intelligence of things a bit.
This would help greatly for AI, language translation, and text to speech. Having an AI screw up your words with unintended sarcastic tone can completely change meaning. I laugh at
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It would be hard for a teenage maturity to comeback with "I was being sarcastic" when they failed to tag
Under typical conditions 99% of sarcastic humor or "it was a joke" is being used to add cover for being a bad person or having fun yourself at others' expense.
They'd just forget to use the tags, anyways.
The tags would also spoil the punch line if it was true sarcastic humor, and there would be arguments for not using the tags even when available.
Re: who cares? (Score:2)
If you need a sarcasm tag, then maybe you just don't get sarcasm.
The endgame of the internet (Score:2)
People claim to want discourse, but they don't. They want validation that's instant and effortless.
"You like this? OMG you're so right, it's so awesome"
"You think that? OMG that's so insightful and true"
"You told a joke? ROFL!"
etc etc etc
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This.
Chatbots are going to win much of the internet users with exactly this kind of thing! But less obvious and with some breaks in the pattern real sycophants may not normally do... It might be good if it can hook future cult leaders...
In addition, the boost one gets from looking down comparatively upon others in some way. Same thing that powers reality TV but predates it... somebody wonders into your tribe and you all beat them down and send them away.
Or the bar brawler mentality (can be outside tribe)
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Culture has shifted greatly... everybody tends to talk AT people and are hardly listening waiting for their opening so they can talk. A giveaway is when they track back to the topic they were holding on to
I do think that it really depends on the forum. Some people want to talk about certain topics, and here's where reddit or discord kind of succeed where I gather X and Bluesky fail - areas about certain things. I have 0 interest in talking about cricket. I know almost nothing about the game, and I don't lik
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Re: The endgame of the internet (Score:2)
That's bullshit. Study after study has shown that engagement is driven by vitriolic disagreement. If everyone's parroting my ideas, why would I even read the discussion? A tool like this will find the dregs of the Internet with no friends and no romantic prospects. Everyone else would just stop using social networks as the network effect breaks down as echo chambers increasingly become silo'd.
Verklemmt (Score:2)
Oh, for fuck's sake (Score:2)
Maybe the joke isn't that funny? (Score:2)
It's easy to whine that people lack a sense of humor if they don't get your joke or parody. But IMO, it's getting pretty old and stale trying to pass off a whole "news story" or imitation of a famous person online as hilariously funny.
I could go the rest of my life without hearing another bad Donald Trump or Elon Musk imitation, for example. (There's some car dealership in my city that kept running radio ads with terrible Trump and Biden impersonators bantering back and forth about their great deals. Just k
Bad Comedians (Score:2)
There's this adage from standup comedy, I forget exactly how it goes, but basically the line is it's *always* the comedians fault if the audience doesn't laugh.
You may have a great joke, but if you tell it to the wrong group, and they just groan at you, that's *your* fault, never theirs.
It's not Bluesky that has the problem. The joke doesn't have a problem. Just this one comedian does.
Bluesky or Bluecry? (Score:4, Informative)
Culture difference (Score:2)
Lemme show you tha door... THERE'S THA DOOR! (Score:2)
"Just a joke" one of the most abusive tactics (Score:2)
I hope they *do shut that shit down* on Bluesky and keep it as a platform for mature adult conversation.
Because we've seen it repeatedly turn platforms into cesspools.
Re:Blue Sky - an ECHO CHAMBER for Ugly Fat Libs. (Score:5, Interesting)
The current X makes meaningful discourse impossible. With threading, it is just very difficult.
Re:Blue Sky - an ECHO CHAMBER for Ugly Fat Libs. (Score:5, Interesting)
X is social media. Social media is not made for beneficial interaction. It's made for clicks (which is why I don't consider Slashdot social media, even though it has a social aspect).
Threaded comments would make it possible to reorient yourself in the discussion, contextualize a post and post a level-headed reply that shows understanding of the point another has made.
None of that leads to drive-by insults, rage and flamewars, which bring views.
Re:Blue Sky - an ECHO CHAMBER for Ugly Fat Libs. (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm not sure WHAT slashdot is anymore. Technical discussions have all but vanished and seemingly every topic quickly devolves into curmudgeons grinding their political axes (love Trump, hate Trump, fuck capitalism, love capitalism, etc).
It's unfortunate.
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You had your chance. You should have posted this as an "Anonymous Coward."
Ah well, this place really is dead. A sense of humor somewhat above, but not quite as funny, as Bluesky.
COWBOY NEAL!
Re: Blue Sky - an ECHO CHAMBER for Ugly Fat Libs. (Score:4)
Didn't stop you from posting a symbol of colonialism and genocide
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people who spend their day posting angry replies to twitter threads are in general not the winning type of person.
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It keeps them off the streets. (but not out of the line at Starbucks)
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I'm not sure WHAT slashdot is anymore. Technical discussions have all but vanished and seemingly every topic quickly devolves into curmudgeons grinding their political axes (love Trump, hate Trump, fuck capitalism, love capitalism, etc).
Technical articles get like 6 comments. Political articles get hundreds. They're just giving us what we apparently want.
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Re:Blue Sky - an ECHO CHAMBER for Ugly Fat Libs. (Score:5, Insightful)
4, Insightful? Here's what's on the front page right now:
1. Micron SSDs
2. Meta and AI benchmarks
3. Indian Laptops
4. Bluesky *You are HERE
5. US AI progress vs. China's
6. Dire Wolves (news for nerds)
7. Forever Chemicals (news for humans... and nerds)
8. Framework Laptops
9. GPMI vs. HDMI/Displayport
10. Waymo privacy issues (stuff that matters)
11. UK Online Shopping Laws (also stuff that matters)
12. The "weight" of the Internet (news for extremely nerdy nerds)
13. Apple supply line changes to beat tariff regimes
14. Trump tariff news
So let me see here. Bluesky appears to be about a tech platform, and none of y'all can take a joke, so you're turning it into a flame fest.
All the way on the bottom is Trump tariffs, and fully three of the tech articles (Micron, Framework, Apple) are reactions to them. So I guess that also qualifies as "stuff that matters." Though I'd prefer to not hear that moron's name ever again, he is one of the most powerful people in the world.
The problem with Slashdot is its audience and, as my low UID may make credible to you, that has gone very downhill in boiling frog fashion. I think it's mostly because social media has trained people in social media tone and expectations, in a place that used to be about geeks talking in measured and reasonable tones (ie: Not social media, with exceptions for occasional cranks and Usenet-esque flame wars).
Plus, there are troll farms, and they definitely post here. Both real people and bots. Don't feed the trolls.
So, we have a social media tone here. The problem is the whole Internet, not Slashdot. Slashdot has merely received the fallout, and its front page is still mostly on topic, if a little left-leaning sometimes.
Editors, great work. Audiences, hold the line. Let the trolls be trollin and us be strollin.
Re: Blue Sky - an ECHO CHAMBER for Ugly Fat Libs. (Score:2)
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I would actually think /. would be a prime target for troll farms.
Decent sized audience but small enough it should be hard to get heard.
Additionally the audience probably skews having more influence than the average population.
One person could probably manage a handful of accounts and in some way or other shape discourse that flows into other areas.
Were I running a troll farms I would definitely have targeted /. and tried to thumb the scale of libertarian leaning techies either towards or away from Trumpism
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Social media is not made for beneficial interaction. It's made for clicks (which is why I don't consider Slashdot social media
Okay, but you understand you're certifiably insane, right? 99% of what this site does is about getting clicks, if you don't use blockers it is absolutely covered in ads and lately they have been making changes semi-regularly to defeat the blockers. "Editors" post ragebait while holding back technical submissions in the firehose.
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cant even go to page 2 without everything breaking.
Re: Blue Sky - an ECHO CHAMBER for Ugly Fat Libs. (Score:2)
Adults don't spend their time on social media.
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"It's gotten to the point that many of them are fervently hoping for, and planning, assassination sprees against Republican politicians and voters."
No they aren't. This is right wing projection.
"They have decided that Thomas Crooks, Luigi Mangione, Nicholas Roske and Ryan Routh were right and justified."
No they haven't. This is right wing projection.
"...so they continue to protest in favor of genocidal theocrats as a way to defend the rights of people who want nothing more than Palestine to be free (of th
Traitors with mod points (Score:2)
Willfully assisting Trump with treason is itself treason.
Why do you hate the constitution?
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For someone who keeps saying "Constitution" and "treason", you don't seem to understand what it says or means. See https://www.law.cornell.edu/co... [cornell.edu] for detailed discussion.
Similarly, if you think the CEO of a healthcare company is a "mass murderer", you don't know what the law says and are part of the assassination culture that we were criticizing.
Re: Traitors with mod points (Score:2)
What it says is that aiding our enemies is treason. I can read just fine, you should work on it.
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I'm pretty sure right-wingers aren't the ones firebombing cars and setting IEDs in dealerships.
Well, the jury is still out on that. For example, I still hear right-wingers reference a police station that was shot up and then burned as being an example of left wing violence, despite the fact that it was actually done by right-wing boogaloo boys. Also calling the attempted assassins of Trump liberals, even though they were basically lifelong right-wingers who simply hated Trump.
On the note of firebombing cars, how about the Tesla Cybertruck that was blown up in front of a Trump hotel? That, despite ini
Re: That's Not Funny! (Score:2)
It's so common that it doesn't really make the news much.
So you proceed to link to a Wikipedia page containing...numerous citations to news articles, most of which appear to even be major news outlets instead of just obscure local ones. Like this one:
https://apnews.com/article/522... [apnews.com]
I'll never understand why somebody would link to something that disproves their own assertion. Though I doubt you ever had any intention of being honest with either yourself or anybody else, so it's more likely you never intended for anybody to actually cross examine it, which is prob
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Well played, sir! Your moderators have proven that /. does not have a sense of humor, either.
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For example, it has been observed that when a male bureaucrat selects a mate, his fellows report him to HR rather than promoting the idea of forming a relationship, as in other social cultures.
Did the mate-selector in question do so by marking the mate's desk as his territory? Because, if so, yeah that needed to be referred to HR... also janatorial services.
Seriously though, have you ever watched a nature show? In nature, males very seldom "select a mate". The females are the ones usually selecting a mate. True, "mate selection" by males does happen in other species, but that's generally not the long term kind, and the female usually learns to get away faster the next time. Is that the kind of "m
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Not for men....it promotes estrogen type production and we don't need that, it's harmful to men.
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Not for men....it promotes estrogen type production and we don't need that, it's harmful to men.
Except for, you know, all of the actual empirical research that seems to plant that pretty firmly in the "myth" category. Anyway, why would you worry. There's any number of podcast hosts, youtubers, etc. perfectly happy to sell you "male enhancement products" Just pop some male enhancement pills every time you have some soy products and they'll cancel themselves out. Just do not combine either product with chemtrails, there could be drug interactions.
Re: Blue Sky - an ECHO CHAMBER for Ugly Fat Libs. (Score:5, Informative)
We need to make a social network with a true uncensored P2P backend where absolutely everything goes if you want a bastion for free speech
The problem is that this is what we all hope for when we're young and naive. Then we realize that modern technology involves a massive power imbalance where just a few spoilers can spoil things for millions. I believe I may have been introduced to the concept by the Great Gazoo on the Flintstones as a child, who was punished with having to serve Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble for making a button which, when pressed would make the entire universe go "poof". His reason, "I wanted to be the first person on my block to have one.". For a more concrete example, consider the poster who used to post many, many posts on Slashdot threads consisting of ASCII swastikas. I was a Usenet aficionado back in the day. Early on, moderated newsgroups tended to be considered to be an abridgement of the freedom of the platform. Then came the eternal September and the plague of spam (may Canter and Seigel be tied to a rock and their livers gnawed on by vultures for all eternity) and the signal to noise ratio on unmoderated groups dropped to near zero.
The basic problem is that everyone basically has equal power on these platforms, but there's a fundamental imbalance in the power to destroy and the power to counteract that destruction. Anyone on a completely unregulated platform has the power to destroy it and no-one really has the power to stop that destruction. So, really, that hands all the power to anyone who comes along and decides to destroy because they're disgruntled, or just for kicks. Anyone who has ever tried to manage any sort of forum learns this lesson quickly if they don't already know it.
Now, one solution to this that still preserves freedom is user level filtering. So the forum itself is completely free, but the user can filter what they see. In Usenet this was initially done with killfiles, which are a blacklist of addresses you don't want to see posts from. Of course, there are easy workarounds for blacklists. In the very early days most people did not have easy options for multiple e-mail addresses and, if they abused them, you could report them to their e-mail administrator just by replacing the part of their e-mail address before the @ with "postmaster". Those days are long gone for the most part. E-mail addresses are handed out like candy out of the back of a white van. Then there's whitelists, but those suffer from the problem of how to find people to add to your whitelist if you only participate online with people already on your whitelist? Some newsreaders had other forms of filtering built in, like keywords and so forth, but it was never very effective. So, moderation with a light touch was often the best compromise.
Forums like Slashdot traditionally attempted the moderation with a light touch approach. User-guided moderation, moderation-level based reading, etc. Also, (originally anyway) registration required to post except as AC, who automatically started at a low moderation level and only became visible to most users if those charitably reading every post moderated them up. Overall not a bad system, but still abusable. So there's also the lameness filter, but far from perfect. These days, there are other moderation steps going on, hence why we don't get as much spam or ASCII art trolling these days, but Slashdot still seems to strive for a compromise with a relatively light touch on moderation. I still see people bitterly complaining about moderation sometimes, but they always seem to be people who are used to the moderation system on other sites and don't actually understand how it works here on Slashdot. There's also tons of moderation abuse, sock puppet accounts, etc.
There might be hope in AI, if it ever becomes something that actually works for us instead of being a creepy server-side possession of big companies. Also if it's made halfway competent. That could do user-side moderation without actually moderating the forum itself... Of course, then the AI has to moderate pretty much the same for everyone, in which case it's virtually the same as the forum being moderated upstream, or the AI doesn't moderate the same for everyone and you end up with a bunch of walled gardens with the occasional confusing crossover to other walled gardens.
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Good points. Slashdot, though, really threw itself in the river when they got rid of new user registrations. Most people are going to come by, see that it's turned off, and not participate. Meanwhile, it doesn't do anything to keep people from registering bogus throwaway email addresses so that they an spam the site or something. However, what it does do is insure that the site user base is going to atrophy over time as users naturally leave, lose interest, or go do other things. There are no new users to r
Re: Blue Sky - an ECHO CHAMBER for Ugly Fat Libs. (Score:3)
We should have made newsreaders with web of trust moderation. Instead we made web fora without it and now just look where we are.
Blue sky has the most basic web of trust moderation feature, shareable block lists. So at least there's that.
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Free speech isn't a piece of legislation.
I don't believe the poster you're replying to ever once said that it was.
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NPCs do not understand humor. They do clapter pretty well though.
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People are so below moronic they fall for formulaic teenage "just kidding" cop-out... you'd think after that lesson is learned they'd remember it into adulthood but it's as if people forget sometime in their 30s. Or people who never matured beyond their teenage years ARE Trumpists... (BTW, that is the definition of moron... ah, I'm referring to the beyond teenage part but I can see how one could confuse Trumpists and morons.)
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I swear I'm more likeable irl.
I imagine this is true of most of us.
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I swear I'm more likeable irl.
While this is only a subset of it, this actually is part of real life.
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You, on the other hand, continually post ANGER and HATE. You call names, and personally insult those you disagree with.
To me, he's the essence of the right -- he wants
Re: Stuff with a political valence attracts a type (Score:2)
Well said.
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I wouldn't read too much into posts on a niche site like Slashdot saying anything about essence of any political side. Saying things in a calm manner doesn't imply reasoned discussion, and shouting doesn't imply frothing. You can certainly find a lot of screeching / frothing right wing people and calm discussions from left wing people - heck look around "20x vs 1 y" videos on Youtube for instance.
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"One reason I don't do social media and hide behind pseudonyms wherever I do post."
Sure you don't. Are we to believe that "RightwingNutjob" is your birth name and has nothing to do with your politics? Yep, you really are that stupid.
Actually, I think that one is down to English ambiguity when it comes to logical expressions. I think that was actually: "I (don't (do social media)) and (hide behind pseudonyms wherever I do post.)" rather than "I don't ((do social media) and (hide behind pseudonyms wherever I do post.))".
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I did suspect that the main attraction for Bluesky was the implication of carryover bias/censorship from the old original flavor Twitter.
But I never bothered to look into it so I'll just take your word on that, thanks.
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Those who write you are screaming, crying, or throwing up, when you are not, and it's not clearly shown hyperbole... there's a name for that.
Inauthentic content. Or bad-faith contribution.
Yeah! If someone types ROFLLMAO and they're not literally on the floor with an ambulance on the way to take them for emergency ass re-attachment surgery, it's clearly a bad-faith contribution!
Wait... was that a bad-faith contribution?