Woozle HypertwinAcid test for any social network or fedi instance:
If you say "fuck you" to a Nazi, who gets banned?
Sébastien Night@woozle On this instance, both 🙂
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@sebastien @woozle oh, so it's a *polite* authoritarian instance?
@mawhrin @woozle lol...I knew I'd be getting flak for replying. But hey, the question shows up in my feed, so what's it for?
So - I think cultivating a space for cordial civil discussion is important. The non-Nazi user would be expected (in our community) to report the offending post/user to mods so the offending behavior can be blocked from the entire instance. This benefits the community. Insults don't.
(I wouldn't *ban* the "non-Nazi" user, but they'd get a warning)
So - I think cultivating a space for cordial civil discussion is important. The non-Nazi user would be expected (in our community) to report the offending post/user to mods so the offending behavior can be blocked from the entire instance. This benefits the community. Insults don't.
(I wouldn't *ban* the "non-Nazi" user, but they'd get a warning)
@sebastien @woozle it's grand; i'm just saying that i can't be arsed to care for a community that polices the language so.
a society that enforces politeness always leans authoritarian.
@mawhrin @woozle politeness and civility are different.
Being polite: using good manners to not offend others.
Telling someone "You're a fucking genius" is not polite, but we'd have no rule against that :-)
Being civil: behaving in a respectful / benevolent fashion.
Enforcing politeness is useless, because it creates communities that are politely toxic.
The problem with "Fuck you" is not "Fuck".
Being polite: using good manners to not offend others.
Telling someone "You're a fucking genius" is not polite, but we'd have no rule against that :-)
Being civil: behaving in a respectful / benevolent fashion.
Enforcing politeness is useless, because it creates communities that are politely toxic.
The problem with "Fuck you" is not "Fuck".
@sebastien @woozle you did just the very thing here. thanks for making my point for me.