I'm all for building apps to solve problems, but I would really encourage folks to ask people politely to do what you want them to do, rather than having an app do it for you.

You can just ask people for things! And you will become a better person for it.

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dartharva an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Asking people publicly tends to challenge their ego and bring up defensiveness. It would fail a lot more than subtle manipulation like this, and instead bring additional confrontation.

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delfinom 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Video of person being beaten to death after asking the attacker to stop smoking in a bus:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1qdqztb/whe...

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tintor 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What is impressive in the video is two guys stepping in to help.

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anigbrowl 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He was not beaten to death, liar. He shouldn't have been punched, but there is no need to just make stuff up.

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fernandotakai 7 hours ago | parent [-]

sure. he wasn't beaten to death.

but:

1. do you really wanna get into a fight because of this? because dude, i have a family to take care, so i would rather just not say anything.

2. you can easily die from a single punch

	▲	anigbrowl an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Nobody is suggesting he deserved to be punched or that there are some unreasonable violent people around. Yeah, he could have died. But saying he actually did is a lie deployed to get attention, I can't stand that.