A couple come to mind. I made a post about how this it's a very suburban white American thing to insist every kid should have their own bedroom when that's not anything close to normal historically. This was inspired by a friend of mine who is buying a house that has two more bedrooms than people (and they're not having any more kids). Not to mention I'm old enough that I have friends who have multiple kids and everyone thinks it's just beyond the pale to force kids to share a bedroom, even if the parents can't really afford more rooms. I stand by my position, but you all seemed to really not like this one.

I also said the Falklands should go back to Argentina, because fuck Nonce Island and the whole idea of overseas colonies. It's also a military weakness for Argentina that the UK (and so by extension the US/NATO) has an island off it's a coast. OTOH, Argentina is also a settler colonial nation so it's not like they have a "right" to it either. And yeah, about 2,000 people live there now and presumably they would have to either become Argentinian or move back to the UK. So it's admittedly a mixed bag.

So what are your least popular takes? This is all in good fun so I'll remove any comments that try and make this a struggle session.

  • Shitbird [any]
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    4 years ago

    not the least popular, but I think camping out on the mod log is peak cringe. hand wringing over random bans is fucking stupid when this site doesn't have ip bans.

    ...

    also this site should have ip bans, including for known VPNS :josus-stalin:

    edit: mods locked the post go here - https://hexbear.net/post/102871

      • Shitbird [any]
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        4 years ago

        If you think a VPN is going to stop any of the 3 letter agencies, then I've got an incredible bridge to sell you. Also, you shouldn't be doing any shit on a public and unencrypted site that you would get you on a list. Your shitposts aren't going to get you on the no-fly list.

        Blocking VPNs is the only way ip bans would work. They either could either do that at the beginning, or waste time and pick them off as wreckers switch over to them in the first 5 minutes of even launching a feature like that.

        It's super cool the admins / devs / mods have been all in on transparency and privacy shit, but they are too idealistic. This site isn't an irl organization, complete honesty and "fairness" doesn't work on the internet. If you're going to go with an IRL example, it's closer to a low stakes AES. Get a secret police, eliminate FUD, and don't apologize.

        Basically

        CW: self harm / violence

        by not cracking down on this shit, the mod team keeps shoving a shotgun in their mouth and pulling the trigger. If they're wondering why their whole dev team burnt-out and half the sitemods quit a while back, that's fucking why.

          • Shitbird [any]
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            4 years ago

            I mean sure, but every social media site besides this one has ip bans and device fingerprinting for a fucking reason. It's not just for advertising, you have to freeze out toxic weirdos and make it such a pain in the ass to get around moderation that they just move on to somewhere easier. Shit, I think even fucking 4chan had ip bans and that place is a huge pool of rancid shit.

              • Shitbird [any]
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                4 years ago

                pretty sure a bunch of devs left and the only admin who regularly comments anymore is @ScreamoBMO . They can turn this shit around and I hope they do, I'm rooting for everyone, but they have to get ruthless.

                edit: the site is still growing and I am thankful for all the hard work that goes into giving me somewhere to post jpegs of my frothy brain diarrhea. :rat-salute: Wasn't trying to make a dogshit "tEh SiTe iZ dEdiNg" comment.

                  • Shitbird [any]
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                    4 years ago

                    I'm not a dev or I'd be building ip bans for them, but whatever is easier. Seems like there'd be more off the shelf shit for ip banning. They should consider an invite system too if they manage to find more dev volunteers.

          • Shitbird [any]
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            4 years ago

            encrypted end to end shit like signal is what I use irl for things that matter. anyone can visit this site and read everything.

            • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              Ah, I see now. I suppose there is no way to have end to end encryption on a social media forum anyway. It could be implemented in PMs but by definition a forum could never operate that way

              • Shitbird [any]
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                4 years ago

                yeah exactly. Not tracking for advertising is the cool thing about the site's privacy anyway. We shouldn't be giving a fuck if you mods nuke a kerryposter and ban them on their dad's ipad or whatever the fuck those losers use to hate post.

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        4 years ago

        have you seen the shit chuds get away with on their forums. I know they are friends of the feds but they will write pure unfiltered boomer evangelical rage describing how they are going to shoot each of your body parts with a different gun they own (w/ pictures) I feel like the average American person now is just indistinguishable from a potential domestic terrorist by speech alone, at least the online people.