The reply before this is also quite something, all angry somebody is saying they will leave if this carries on. I assume they would also be just as mad if somebody just started to ghost the project and just left because of this.

wow, sure is a strong community member there. you just know you can trust their takes on community participation!

(idly: lol, didn’t know discourse made those stats public, but hilariously useful for muh sneer)

Wow doing a dive on somebodies post history is a bit creepy, not sure how I feel that every site now keeps (and makes public) that much info about everybody.

Otoh, from the ‘top categories (posts/replies)’ part:

lawl. (I’d assume a github profile is more important in this case, but I’m not going to dig into that, I already feel filthy).

nothing particularly wrong/dirty/whatever about this imo. hell, it’s just about an essential skill for researching in general, whether researching chuds or otherwise

also fwiw this was, like, “clicking their name in the forum to see who the hell they were”. I barely even started digging :D

Yeah it just feels dirty to me, I usually try to set those kinds of features to private the moment I become aware of them. (And I certainly have digged into peoples posts here before and then kept the info to myself as while what I found wasn’t great I think doing a sort of helldump (I think that was the term) even on chuds is a bit eurgh. Esp when the people themselves are just random people with a hundred followers. (Of course this depends on the type of person, neo-nazi types I’m a lot less friendlier to than other random meh people, like this attempt above at trying to put the ‘our community blew up’ back into the bottle tone police guy (that is the type of person they seem to be on reading my initial comment, didn’t dig further)).

“Helldump” is my new favorite term for that

Sometimes you find really crazy stuff in people’s histories. This year, I’ve found a Black neo-nazi, an alt-right plural system, and a Thelemist who is just so beyond the pale I literally cannot paraphrase what they said and have to quote it in full: reddit.com/…/banned_reddits_and_the_reasons_if_kn…

/r/animememes :: Did not use the banned word “trap” but explained how banning the word was an empty meaningless gesture. Also, demonstrated how Communism is a failure (in the private messages with the mods). Despite doing as they asked, and despite not having broken the rules, they have not bothered to adhere to their end of the deal. Not surprising Communists never seem to do what they promise.

I just follow the prime directive with these people, but I think it’s mostly because I’m not good enough with words to accomplish anything by confronting them. I remember this one impassioned thread on like, /r/HarryPotter or maybe /r/books about HPMoR and all the crazy TREACLES stuff. And I understood them completely, but I felt bad because it had like, two comments, and neither really got what OP was trying to communicate. They were like, “I love HPMoR, it’s so upsetting that bad people online co-opted it! That’s crazy. Thanks for the heads up!”