Bard spotting on Bluesky 08 November 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

And the people who are stubborn enough to overcome the friction of using your tool, will have an oversize influence on the service.

Karens. I'm talking Karens.

(I speak as a white-hat Karen)

Pavel (@spavel.bsky.social):

If you are making a tool, you need to have a very strong point of view about how that tool will be used. Otherwise you are shifting that burden onto your users - and if using your tool is a burden, they simply won't.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

You may think that you want Only Karens / Neighbourhood Watch / People With More Time Than Most to use your tool. That user friction is the solution to at-scale abuse of the tool.

You are almost certainly wrong.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

It took thirteen transgender women 6 months, tens of thousands of abuse reports & 130,000 activists & a threat of advertiser boycott to get Reddit to enforce SWR1 on /r/TumblrInAction & /r/SocialJusticeInAction.

After two years of violations.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

It took a user riot (by MRAs) for Reddit to close /r/MGTOW, a year & a half after Reddit adopted SWR1, a year & a half after quarantining it, a year & a half after it was cited by the FBI as a gender-based Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism group.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

These kinds of foot-drags, where the burden was on the user base to make the case for enforcement, to make a service provider keep the promises they've made,

are the cause of trust thermocline inversions.