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  • Ask your community members, maybe?

    I lean towards “go for it! block away” but I come from a different internet culture than reddit so could never mod anywhere similar. You might get better advice from someone who’s spent more time in these spaces.

    To me, It seems like chronic downvotes from nonmembers could mess up your comm’s discovery. And is mildly annoying. Not terrible, but I don’t think they need to be evil to get a community block. If you do it too much, your community might stagnate and people might start a new one. Oh well! Good luck to the new guys, imo. You might end up on PTB and get harassed. Always a risk as a mod, unfortunately.

    Put “frequent exclusive downvotes from non-members gets a block to increase likelihood of community discovery by people interested in this content” on your profile. I mean, if you talk with your community members and they agree it’s an issue.


  • In March, she and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s three liberal justices in holding that Elon Musk’s nebulous cost-cutting initiative DOGE could not unilaterally freeze $2 billion in congressionally approved aid for work that had already been completed.

    “She is evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes,” Cernovich wrote. “Another DEI hire. It always ends badly.”

    Notably, Roberts was not accused of being a turncoat—just Coney Barrett.

    Hmmmm wonder why. Man, she did her job and got roe v wade overturned, and they’ll still outright call her “evil.”


  • There’s a limit to how carefully you can word things to protect its meaning from people determined to read it in bad faith. I have it too - the desire to be long winded to preemptively protect myself from misunderstanding. But there’s a risk that we’ll turn everything we say into long blocks of soft useless mush. There’s no precision precise enough to be safe.

    We have to, I think, decide to write for people willing to reach for us when we hold out a hand. There are enough willing to try that any general misunderstandings can be clarified with conversations other people can read if they want to understand. If enough of us are willing to do this for each other, it might be possible to build spaces where people who slap that outheld hand away don’t have to dictate conversation. And maybe we can both be less wordy.