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comment by dublinben
dublinben  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What freedom of speech isn't

I've been on this site a whole lot longer than you have, and I've only run into toxic users a handful of times. I simply don't see them, because I don't follow them. I can passively filter out low quality users by following a carefully selected group of other discerning users. In an extreme case, I can actively filter out negative users, although I have yet to need these tools.





tla  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I see them regularly. They reply to me when I post things about feminism. I don't plan on not posting about feminism because it makes me meet them. That's how "free speech" becomes less free for me.

kleinbl00  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So those of us who have been here a while don't use #feminism. We use #grrlski. This has two obvious problems:

1) Neither thenewgreen or I can remember if it's two rs or 3.

2) It's a long damn way from obvious.

I've harped at length about the fact that our tag nomenclature is entirely folklore-dependent... but the fact remains, it's a higher-quality tag.

tla  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's also another problem.

People who do go to #feminism get an eyeful.

rinx  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Or that rule is not known, or feminism is now used as a pejorative tag against users you don't like to invite trolling. The community tagged this one feminism, not me, for example.

Edit: Looks like you don't see community tags until you actually go to the post. Intentional?

user-inactivated  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I've harped at length about the fact that our tag nomenclature is entirely folklore-dependent... but the fact remains, it's a higher-quality tag.

It builds a culture for the site though, which I think has merit in and of itself.