Daily Bard Digest 2024-10-01

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Here's todays official post from the BARDCHIVE:

10/28/21 14:26:26 with a score of -1: https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/qhpr6i/crowd_control_can_now_filter_comments/hif42m1/?context=8

You're aware that promoting hatred based on identity or vulnerability is now a violation of the #1 sitewide rule of reddit, right?

I have you on record as holding the position of "We shouldn't socially accept [transgender / transsexual people], much less enable them..." approximately three years ago. This was a comment of yours in response to a post that was titled "Being a [slur for transgender people] shouldn't be socially acceptable" where the author of the post -- in the highest upmarseyd comment in the post -- opined that there's nothing wrong with being a bigot.

Such rhetoric promotes hatred against transgender and transsexual people.

That same comment you made three years ago, you expressed doubt about whether there was any justification for the continued existence of LGBTQIA+ people.

That would be a threat.

You talk about "echochambers".

The truth is this: For about eight years, Reddit was an echochamber, promoting hatred and harassment based on identity or vulnerability. Bigots enjoyed nearly unlimited exercise of hateful, violent, and harassing rhetoric and behaviour on this site - to the exclusion of any other viewpoint. Front page posts would be brigaded by hordes of racists; Admin announcements would be commented on by user accounts that expressed worship and admiration of racially motivated violent extremists like Dylann Roof.

Even when subreddits would make rules - clearly stated rules - that prohibited hate speech and harassment, bigots would ignore those and post hate speech and harass people anyways.

This is such a common occurrence and cycle that there's even a trope about it, now.

The truth is that -- with the exception of subreddits that had extensive and dedicated moderation teams, almost all of Reddit was a safe haven for bigots, and widely populated with echo chambers for bigots, while the audience of same decried being excluded from the few subreddits that had rules prohibiting hatred.

For a long time, you were perfectly happy with echo chambers that were in your favour - where you had an unending supply of victims and an unlimited amount of allies across the site.

But it turns out that bigots aren't the majority of people. It turns out that most people don't want to put up with bigotry. It turns out that leaving a forum moribund and captured from the inside by violent, threatening, harassing, hateful goons serves no one very much except the goons.

The truth is that you had your free speech. You used it. You used it to great extent, and for nothing much more than to tell the world that you're angry and afraid and resentful and want everyone else to suffer for whatever it is that hurt you, and that you do not respect boundaries - personal or community boundaries.

It was you dividing people into their own spaces and out of public life.

It was you who did not, or could not, or would not make an effort to understand others - preferring to put them in fear for their lives. safety, health, happiness, and rights.

It was you who continually operated under the assumption that you were always right and the people who refused your hatred were always wrong.

It's your choice. You chose to make hatred the totality of your defining characteristics.

When you make the choice to leave that behind, the world awaits.