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    • FlintstoneSpiceLatte [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Can confirm. I cycle through usernames, writing styles, and personalities every couple months. I've been here for at least a year in actuality.

      For opsec reasons: Don't get too attached to one account.

        • TekkenChauncey [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          The number of 2-year-old accounts that had issue with my basic-marxist position on "art for art's sake is a bourgeois invention, all art is routed in social forms and thus political" take a month ago was surprising. They also weren't super-active, they made basic posts every 2-4 weeks, maybe, sometimes a couple months of inactivity. But somehow were called to action to dogpile me and call me a Twitter-lib for, like, the most basic Marxist takes on art. Has me suspicious.

          • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            19th century capitalist France: invents l'art pour l'art

            Them: Art for art's sake isn't bourgeois btw

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      the website can be kinda awful.

      Almost every one of my negative experiences on this site is because I criticized someone's treat. It's especially remarkable how many times I've been called mentally ill by some treat defender because of that, because leftism is about hating on the mentally ill and using mental illness as a pejorative against treat critics. :so-true:

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I think you're on to something there.

          On the last part, removing downvotes seemed to be an improvement. Removing upvotes might help unless some unintended consequences lead to another 4ch!n where "anon" often meant botting and repetitive reposts where even the attempt to remove that via automated screening systems resulted in the incel hellpit known as /r9k/.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              For the moment the mod system seems to be working better than it did before, but I don't know what to credit for that. It does seem to be a bit of a "black box" system now.

              By extension, I don't know how, or even if it'd be a good idea, to codify (for lack of a better term) "treat defense" as a punishable offense no matter how petty, toxic, and sometimes feral it can get. I don't have all the answers.

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  I agree with you, and it is at a deeper level that I rarely touch upon myself.

                  It can be hard to challenge that complacency, even with the anti-sociality characteristics in mind, because at some level I do understand that people are tired, worn out, demoralized, and just want to work and rest and have entertainment in between (or sometimes during), and that such entertainment may have such a viscerally felt importance that it's seen as a personal offense, or even a threat, when that entertainment is criticized.

                  You may have right of it that it's the antisociality that could be the fairly punished offense of it. Not "Gambo sucks, so you're banned for being a Gambo fan" but "calling people mentally ill and concern trolling them about their mental health or lack thereof because they criticized Gambo is a punishable offense" may work.

                    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                      2 years ago

                      In general if I criticize some treat I do it because I think something in the messaging or the ideological implications is potentially harmful. I rarely criticize the consumers directly first (except :my-hero: cultists, fuck 'em).

                      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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                        2 years ago

                        i generally like you, but you once called indian food a "treat" because i pushed back on a take of yours

                        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                          2 years ago

                          I called the British specific version of it a treat, in particular the extraordinary rage from one user because of my tongue in cheek remark that the British plundered the world's local cuisines yet were kind of notorious for their stolen versions of it being bland or covered in beans or something.

                          If it was another time and a different argument than that, I don't remember. Besides, I don't think treats as a concept are automatically bad anyway, only how they're identified with or how culture interacts around them in hellworld.

                          • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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                            2 years ago

                            that was me yes
                            and it wasn't extraordinary rage, as i said in that thread, just exasperation at an american doing the one joke, but with extra ignorance
                            we are pretty famous for having very good Indian food, as you would expect from somewhere with a large Indian population

                            no investigation, no right to speak and all that

                            and of course you don't respond to this lmao

            • quartz242 [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              the process is to become a mod is pretty easy so anyone who is curious can see inside the blackbox

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I honestly see treat defenders and people complaining about how you should "let people have fun" far more in online spaces than irl. Treat defenders and treat defending don't really exist irl, at least in my own personal experience. I've seen far more celeb and sports defending among my coworkers. Let's put it this way: people aren't going to start throwing hands because you said Game of Thrones has gratuitous nudity and violence or the sequels are worse than the prequels. But talk shit about someone's favorite team, especially if they're a serious fan and you're a fan of the rival team? Yeah, you're going to get a very different response than calling their childhood cartoon a glorified toy commercial.