#and the op of that post made a good point about algorithms not showing inflammatory content unless you bite the clickbait

[austencollins]

That post getting all nostalgic over how “don’t feed the trolls” used to be the norm online keeps popping up, and it’s not that it’s a terrible unreasonable post or totally bad advice or anything; but it drives me a little bonkers to see people acting like that phrase went out of fashion for no reason or because everyone just got cranky or whatever. “don’t feed the trolls” is good advice when you’re a member of a well-moderated forum trying to stay on topic and keep out of flame wars. it’s not useful if you’re the one who has to moderate everything, or if you’re dealing with swatters, doxxers, brigadiers & so on; because there’s no guarantee that ignoring online harassment will make it stop, or prevent things from getting worse.

#and the op of that post made a good point about algorithms not showing inflammatory content unless you bite the clickbait #and about there being other ways of managing what kinda content you see #but at the same time... is it not our human right to be cranky? to get worked up about stuff? #to comment on the absolute nonsense that we're seeing?? #from time to time? #it's imo messed up that a lot of the big social media sites don't try harder to facilitate a social environment that's more like real life #instead of an every-body-for-themselves pvp-enabled public forum where eavesdropping is strongly encouraged #also. like. the whole concept of a troll was someone who wasn't truly sincere but just trying to get a reaction out of people #which imo went out of fashion because it became steadily more and more apparent that plenty of them were sincere. #anyway that's my little pseudo-rant. #internets #argumentation