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this is Habryka talking about how his moderating skills are so powerful it takes lesswrong three fucking years to block a poster who’s actively being a drain on the site

here’s his reaction to sneerclub (specifically me - thanks Oliver!) calling LessOnline “wordy racist fest”:

A culture of loose status-focused social connection. Fellow sneerers are not trying to build anything together. They are not relying on each other for trade, coordination or anything else. They don’t need to develop protocols of communication that produce functional outcomes, they just need to have fun sneering together.

He gets us! He really gets us!

  • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    lobste.rs just banned an 11 year old account with almost 5,000 comments and 45k karma for being a transphobic jerk. No muss, no fuss, no apologetic blogpost where the user could defend themselves and rile up the masses.

    That’s how you do it, people.

    edit I have now skimmed the comments where banned use Said can explain himself, and he’s using his last efforts to nobly defend himself, thanking his admirers, and generally projecting an image of a man wrongly accused.

    j/k he’s doubling down on being a dick.

    • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      An update, a Concerned Citizen furrows their brow and Has Questions on how this was handled, about a week later

      https://lobste.rs/s/zoirhl/appealing_ban_user_friendlysock

      A predictable shitshow erupts, which leads to the creator of Anubis quitting the site, along with a few others.

      At least I get more entries in my “lobste.rs assholes” list.

      Worth noting is this text from the mod (https://lobste.rs/s/zoirhl/appealing_ban_user_friendlysock#c_6prapm)

      This pattern was that every couple years there’d be a long string of cruel, dismissive, or discouraging comments. Not necessarily wrong, not outright abusive, not spam, not any one over the line, but all of them… just endless “ugh, this guy again?” and other users, more or less quietly, leaving rather than deal with it. This final comment called out in the modlog is one more example. The entire goal of the rhetoric is that it’s not explicit, it’s not outright libelous, it doesn’t even take personal responsibility for holding the opinion of the smear it insinuates. It’s deniable out of context, whether the missing context is the author’s writing history or the missing context is the old bigotry that trans people are pedophiles.

      I’m not missing that context. The only thing I’m missing is the charity to think that somehow this time it’s different, that after a decade, this time it will the last time would be the last time I have to explain that this is a community where everybody’s going to be treated with some basic dignity. The other mods suggested the idea of a public apology but that didn’t work out, and absent a persuasive reason to expect this pattern wouldn’t continue, this ban stands.

    • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      9 days ago

      oh, i’m laughing now. it’s actually beautiful that it was the anubis’ anime jackal girl that forced him to drop the plausible deniability shield and go full queerphobic.

      • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        I finally found which user we’re talking about and I am quietly delighted at that smarmy fucker being directed to the fourth-floor egress.

        edit: here’s the long form mod last warning. You’ll see in that thread my next prediction for ejection via the fourth floor, whose profile shows he’s into crypto.

        • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
          6·
          8 days ago

          yeah sorry I had the username (“friendlysock”) in a first draft then forgot to add it

          good riddance to bad rubbish

          • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
            5·
            8 days ago

            …why does that username ring bells in my brain

            did it show up here somewhat recently? (I ask right before checking search)

            (e: nothing immediately in search but I could swear I’ve seen that name somewhere in the last few months (and not in a good context))

                • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
                  5·
                  8 days ago

                  (like, largely it just bugs me where I know the name from (because being baseline horrendous at recalling names and then recognising this one is uhhhh))

    • scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      j/k he’s doubling down on being a dick.

      I had kind of gotten my hopes up from the comparisons of him to sneerclub that maybe he’d be funny or incisively cutting or something, but it looks mostly like typical lesswrong pedantry, just less awkwardly straining to be charitable (to the in-group).