I’m just curious and don’t want to break any rules

    • @glad_cat9187@beehaw.org
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      810 months ago

      Hi, Kuro5hin Slashdot Digg Reddit refugee here. Please keep it that way, it reminds me of the newsgroups or old communities when the web started, and it’s really better than fake rules with vague legal text. Also thanks for the web site.

      • Chris RemingtonM
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        610 months ago

        I will do everything in my power to keep it this way. Welcome to Beehaw.

    • MeganOP
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      711 months ago

      That’s very vague, that could be anything though. Can you be more specific

        • MeganOP
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          211 months ago

          Intentionally vague makes me think it’s that way on purpose so y’all can ban whoever you want

          • alyaza [they/she]M
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            1111 months ago

            it’s that way on purpose so y’all can ban whoever you want

            it is that way on purpose, and it is so we can ban people on an as-needed basis (which i guess in a sense is “whoever [we] want”) but excluding obvious trolls i think we’ve banned literally three people ever on the instance and it’s been extant for a year. using intuition on what’s acceptable and what’s not–and nudging them when they break a boundary–appears to work quite well for our users, so we’re not liable to start writing explicit rules any time soon

          • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
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            1011 months ago

            they can ban whoever they want, they own the website. Just like fb and twitter can ban whoever they want.

            • MeganOP
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              211 months ago

              You’re not wrong. But how does that make a successful website when you ban everyone who challenges ideas? People are mean in real life, all some are, and I don’t see how just banning what you don’t like makes you prepared to deal with ‘mean’ people.

              • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
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                611 months ago

                But how does that make a successful website when you ban everyone who challenges ideas?

                It doesn’t, but why would you think that they ban everyone who challenges ideas? They only want you to be nice.

                People are mean in real life, all some are, and I don’t see how just banning what you don’t like makes you prepared to deal with ‘mean’ people.

                Maybe that doesn’t perfectly prepare you, but not every website needs to do that. Other websites exist, on many of them you can literally be as mean as you want.

                • MeganOP
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                  111 months ago

                  Like which websites can you be as mean as you want? I haven’t come across that

      • Chris RemingtonM
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        511 months ago

        We have three admins here…odd number to break ties. Us three will discuss, if need be, what is nice and what is not nice. Most of the time this just boils down to common sense.

        • MeganOP
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          11 months ago

          Ok, what if someone is begin an asshole, can I call them out on that or do you immediately just ban them? What if I disagree with someone and that person gets pissed and calls me a homophobe or something, can I defend myself and my position?

          • @heady@beehaw.org
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            1211 months ago

            If you exceed 100 asshole units then you will be autobanned by one of the cyborg mods.

          • Gaywallet (they/it)
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            911 months ago

            Did you read the posts the linked you? I talk in depth about how discussions are encouraged. However, calling people names is not nice unless it’s warranted by behavior. Bans aren’t quick and fast and reactionary; behavior is to be discussed among all individuals involved.

    • @Abrogha@beehaw.org
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      210 months ago

      Have had bad experiences with reddit mods. So it’s hard to say when people are being what. So this statement seems a little ambiguous.

      • Chris RemingtonM
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        210 months ago

        Have you tried reading the rest of the comments in this post? You may want to try that first.

      • alyaza [they/she]M
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        210 months ago

        Have had bad experiences with reddit mods. So it’s hard to say when people are being what.

        i think it’d be useful in this case to go in with a blank slate, just on the basis that while this functions in many ways like reddit, it isn’t reddit. as noted elsewhere in this thread we’ve really not needed to ban people and this place has existed for over a year.

  • @estelle@beehaw.org
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    this is sexypink / alice / pinklacey / CharlesMcFuck’s acct if anyone is wondering