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| ▲ | jfengel 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You still have the right to speak. You don't have the right to an audience. |
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| ▲ | dontwannahearit 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | And who gets to decide? | | |
| ▲ | jfengel an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | There's no decision to be made. It's a right you don't have. The decision is where people put their attention. It could be anywhere. Statistically speaking, it won't be you. | |
| ▲ | javascriptfan69 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | the people moderating the platform that you signed up to post on? what do you mean? | | |
| ▲ | dontwannahearit 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | See my comment below. On HN for example it isn’t necessarily the moderators, it’s the users with downvote power who can influence what everyone else sees. So the elite users are the ones who choose. Funny how our communities mirror the social structures we supposedly hate. | | |
| ▲ | jfengel an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The site owners chose to implement it that way. That's their right. If you don't like it you can go elsewhere. | |
| ▲ | javascriptfan69 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | sure but to other users that's a feature and part of why they're here it's like going to a cafe and complaining that everyone is drinking coffee | |
| ▲ | mikestew 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | “Elite users”? I don’t think that avoiding being an assclown long enough to collect 500 points to downvote status is a high bar to clear. | |
| ▲ | behole 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And? Go somewhere else. I get elite-downvoted semi-regularly but that’s all in the game. You knew the rules when you came here. |
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| ▲ | 2OEH8eoCRo0 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I have a right to my own eyes and ears. It's not censorship to block trolls that I don't like. |
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| ▲ | dontwannahearit 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Right. Ergo it is censorship to downvote trolls you don’t like because you do not have a right to other people’s eyes and ears? | | |
| ▲ | whattheheckheck 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | No its the Algorithms of the platforms that decide to treat the signal of the downvote as an indicator they ought to hide/censorship that information for the quality of the information garden whether it be for ad revenue or eudaimonia |
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| ▲ | customguy 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think the way blocking gets used and then bragged about to the personal bubble on BS (I wouldn't know about Twitter) is kind of pathetic, but at the same time, I do not mind getting blocked, or put on any of those shitlists, because that leaves me with the people who are either insane, kinda cool, or both. |
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| ▲ | rexpop 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | You must be straight, white, and/or male sticking to safe topics approved of by mainstream Big Brother sycophants, because everyone else is subject to a firehose of verbal abuse. | | |
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| ▲ | hashmap 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| And yet I bet you leave your spam filter on instead of explaining to the spam what's wrong with it. |
