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empty  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jon Stewart, Patron Saint of Liberal Smugness

I don't think it's necessary to tell people when you've blocked them. All it does is get one little jab in, and it's to tell them you're not going to listen to their response. This normalizes the "shots fired" that signal beginning of flame wars, and it's a slippery slope from that to the degeneration of thoughtful discourse site-wide.

But for the record, I already had him filtered, too. :P





thenewgreen  ·  3395 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk can there be a way to see hidden text on mobile?

insomniasexx  ·  3395 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk forwardslash we could bind an ontap event to blacked out text that would make it normal colored again...

jleopold  ·  3395 days ago  ·  link  ·  

On my HTC One, in the mobile distro of Firefox, long tap and then highlighting reveals it. Tedious, but hidden text is rarely long enough to make it impossible.

user-inactivated  ·  3395 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think it's necessary to begin a comment with 'No, this is fucking idiotic.' so I took measures accordingly.

empty  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, and I blocked him for similar reasons. But like... why provoke him right before blocking him?

user-inactivated  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, oops, I sort of misread your previous comment. In the past mutes have been followed by tedious messages asking for specification. It provides a guideline for those users willing to modify their behavior -- don't act like you did on that comment where you got muted.

Of course, hubski being not what it once was, his terrible comment was also shared 8+ times. Well-kept gardens...

empty  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yup. I keep running around having to tell people to not follow Grendel. I have a mitigation for this problem that I'm developing, but it won't be able to be released until there's an official hubski API.

tla  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Alas, there are still 34 people being sprinkled with the spores of his toxicity.

empty  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wait, we should just talk to them. We know who they are.