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Reddit Launches New Block Tools To Help Temper Harassment (mashable.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Reddit users can now use the new "block user" feature to better deal with harassment. The new feature was announced Wednesday and while the site has had [a "block user"] feature for quite some time now, the new tool allows users to block other users from replies and comments in addition to private messages, which was what the old tool was limited to previously. If users click the "Block User" button when viewing a reply in their inbox, it will remove replies, comments, messages and posts from that user from your view. Admins will however still see all the messages and replies, and if you're a moderator, you can still see content from users who are blocked on the subreddits you moderate.
To stop all the abusive AC posts!
The apps guy *TRIGGERS* my bad memories of using an Android phone 5 years ago!
"Lalala, I can't hear you, lalalalalala, I can't hear you!"
People who can't defend their positions usually try to shut you up, and when that doesn't work they stick their fingers in their ears. You know, like a 5-year old would do.
Good. Maybe this will limit the microaggressive behavior some cisgender white males and help keep Reddit a safe place so everyone else can express their more valid opinions. They also need to add a hugcircle feature.
Nothing exemplifies an online community approaching the event horizon like implementation of blocking and filter tools to be used against the community members.
The so-called harassment that this will be used to block will simply silence the community or largely clueless, inexperienced, wannabe SJW. I guarantee you that it will quickly spiral into a bunch of dingbats talking to themselves, as everyone else will be blocked. At that point, the community ceases to exist and the site is of no interest.
This tool marks the beginning of Reddit's slide back into obscurity. I wonder what the next "big thing" site will be?
Congratulations!
You have destroyed everyone else's freedom along with your own.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
But what about just autoblocking for messages that contain a certain level/frequency of keywords?
Some subreddits have big problems with high karma trolls who never get banned for their bullshit. I can just block them all now. Thanks reddit, about time.
Nobody has the right to not pay attention to me, so I am against this tyrannical form of Reddit sensor sheep.
You are welcome on my lawn.
never believe people that say they have you in their best interest
Reddit is just now getting block/ignore? IRC has had /ignore for quite a while. Facebook has block. Even on Slashdot, I can designate different UIDs "enemies" and apply a massive negative score to them.
I don't get the anti-sjw whinging above. Is IRC a hugbox because of the /ignore command? Does IRC's /kick or /ban commands (yeah, technically /mode #channel +b somemask iirc) make IRC a hugbox?
You're all dipshits. This is pretty much all the Slashdot and Soylent communities have to offer any more. Reactionary dipshits who think they're hip because they duckspeak the word cisgendered.
I think a "Block Anyone Who Disagrees With Me" button would be a lot simpler.
It is a local solution, which means it can't be actually used for censorship, but just isolating snowflakes from the community.
It would be dangerous if for example reddit banned people in too many lists or assigned people to put people on block for you, and this block was not removable.
Hugcircle is a better term than hugbox. In a circle everyone is equal distance from the center. Plus there are no sharp corners so it is safer than a box. In the future please use the term "hugcircle" instead so we can be more inclusive of everyone!
Hey, I'm all for stopping assholes from being assholes, and if you think hiding from it is protection, then go for it. I don't really have a better solution.
But there's a similar problem I have with the greater Twitter population, where I feel the block feature can be abused and anyone with a dissenting opinion is harassing you. You become judge, jury, and executioner of their ability to participate in the conversation at all. Opposing views are eliminated and tweet chains become a support group. It's probably less of an issue for Reddit given the different format, but since discussion actually happens there I'd hate to see it die because you're an anti-Skub Republican and I'm a pro-Skub Democrat.
I do like that it's a "hide it from me" solution instead of a "you can't post here" deal. I'd like to go one step further and be able to tell who in the thread is blocking someone else; let me see who is blocking for rape threats and trolling, and who is blocking all the Trump supporters. Actually I'd love that for Twitter even more; you block me, you don't see my replies, I don't know I'm blocked, everyone else can see it.
produce that the current generation needs protection from that which makes us stronger and better adjusted?
If it weren't for being harassed, made fun of, and being generally dragged through the mud I'm not sure I would have ever toughened up and become so well adjusted. It's like they want to make sure the next generation is even worse crop of spineless jellyfish than the current.
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No, seriously.
I hope Reddit doesn't pretend this is something new and innovative, since it's been around since the 1980s.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Tens of thousands of people want to block GallowBoob's submissions, but we can't block him unless he replies to one of our posts or comments.
It's very tempting to rationalize wasted time as worthwhile because of the sunk cost fallacy - it "builds character"!
These trolls aren't doing us a favor by "making us stronger". They're just being jerks on the internet, in a way they'd never have the courage to be in real life. At least in the previous generation you'd get your ass kicked for following someone around and pestering them.
Sorry to interrupt your ageist rant, though. Those kids today are WORTHLESS! They're so terrified of Communists and terrorists that they gave away all the freedom we won from the Axis, to a bunch of bankers and businessmen no less!
Every echo chamber just got that much bigger. I'm sure this is a victory for centrism, moderation and social education, helping to bring people with radical opposing views back towards a healthier, humanist center. No wait...
Every generation thinks the next generation are spineless.
Every generation makes stupid generalizations as they get old, and lose control of the future.
Looks like the same mistake, that twitter made.
Good thing: You do not need to follow your followers
Mistake: When somebody blocks you, you cannot read his tweets, either. Which is strange, because blocking in an asymmetric medium should just be an ignore list.
protection from that which makes us stronger and better adjusted?
It can't make you stronger if you aren't given the mental and social tools to draw strength from it. I'm not certain a software tool can replace that, but the same people aren't given the tools to know the difference.
Reddit harasses me with its articles attacking everything I believe in: it's just not a safe place anymore.
Truth be told, the majority of my fellow Brazilians have shit between the ears (is the origin of the "HUEHUEBR"), so a tool that allows me to take no notice of their comments is an absolute must. It is the best way to get rid of a troll: make his efforts useless, even the dumbest of the trolls will realize at some point that no one listens to him (for not even seeing what he's posting).
Religion: The greatest weapon of mass destruction of all time
It's not about the users, it's about appeasing the leftists that want "safe spaces" in the name of "civility".
Let the alt-creation begin!
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
It incentivizes people to only hear what they want to hear, from sources approved to hear.
Never mind that it will be used by powermods to silence users.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
This is so progressive. Feelings are much more important than the free exchange of ideas :^)
With this tool, it sounds as though users would need to manually block each offending user.
Indeed. The best-case scenario is that the feature is only used against the trolls, but that creates a situation where new users will need to block all the same people as the 'community' before they can get value out of the forum.
So I propose blocking-collectives. Users can agree to group up and adopt each others block lists. They are free to join and leave these collectives at any time. Anyone can create a collective, and collectives themselves can adopt other collectives block lists.
The consequences is one collective to rule them all, tho. We can call that collective 'moderator.'
"His name was James Damore."
Are you saying that trolls don't teach "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me?" And that people don't need to learn this lesson? And it's not better to learn it on-line where you can't get your face busted for retaliating?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
"Reddit users can now use the new "block user" feature to better deal with harassment."
TRANSLATION:
"Reddit social justice warriors can now use the new "block user" feature to better shut down disagreement or speech they don't like."
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Reddit isn't doing this because people are getting PTSD from bad words. They are doing it because they are a commercial service and they want the maximum number of users because that equates to the maximum amount of revenue. Reddit got a really bad rep and a lot of people just moved on, because why put up with that shit? People go there to enjoy having a conversation or to read something interesting, not for some kind of Python-esque abuse clinic.
Reddit was in the same bracket as 4chan for a while, the arse-end of the internet. Nothing wrong with the arse-end if you are into that, but it's not a very profitable place to be.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
produce that the current generation needs protection from that which makes us stronger and better adjusted?
If it weren't for being harassed, made fun of, and being generally dragged through the mud I'm not sure I would have ever toughened up and become so well adjusted. It's like they want to make sure the next generation is even worse crop of spineless jellyfish than the current.
Well as somebody who has been on Usenet since before "Eternal September", this is no different Usenet kill-files. In any forum you get people who contribute to the debate in a civil and constructive manner (though you may not agree with them). And then you get people who are neither constructive nor civil, who just shout their own narrow opinions and shower gratuitous abuse on anybody who disagrees with them.
Kill-files are a very effective way screening out the jerks while still seeing posts from people who have something useful to say.
Please my friend, if you could refrain from using the term at all and just make a gentle hugging motion while spinning in a circle. The spoken word triggers some individuals.
Thank you kindly.
Advertiser scum trying to further HIS crooked personal full of lies agenda https://www.quora.com/profile/... who tells apk to shut up https://slashdot.org/comments.... as you're terrified of his hosts program that shuts YOU up advertiser. You're the small minded loser this post refers to https://slashdot.org/comments.... because you're too technically inept to validly technically shut him up since he's totally right.
Comments I disagree with = harassment.
Stop harassing me with your reasoned disagreements and polite counter-arguments. One time, an Anonymous user said something awful, so that means every single person who disagrees with me is technically making death and rape threats toward me. SMASH THE PATRIARCHY
Collectives you say?
http://www.theblockbot.com/sign_up/connect.php
https://twitter.com/TheBlockBot
No, I'm saying exactly what I wrote. If you'd like to make a rebuttal then do so honestly, don't just make up crazy straw men and expect me to explain the difference to you.
Public service announcement: BarbaraHudson wants to learn the same lesson over and over for decades, even when she's actively trying to learn something else. If she thinks the right response to trolls is to retaliate at all (feed them) then she clearly hasn't learned it yet.
Every generation thinks the next generation are spineless.
Every generation makes stupid generalizations as they get old, and lose control of the future.
Go ask one of the few surviving WWII vets if their parents thought they were spineless.
Go ask one of the few surviving WWII vets about anything, and see if they're making "stupid generalizations" or not.
Go ask yourself about making stupid generalizations about every generation.
faggots
article seems dated wrong
I have the privileged of having two WWII vets as in-laws. I will make certain I ask one in particular (the one who really likes to talk) those questions this summer.
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Loving the predictable, knee-jerk reaction from the crowd here. Business as usual.
Some of the many things that entertain me about the negative comments on this story:
1. Acting like this feature (User A can choose to block User B -- no, User B's content is not deleted) is some shocking new instrument of censorship, when it's a fairly standard feature of, say, BBSes dating back two decades.
2. Acting like harassment on the internet doesn't exist. Harassment is a real thing. It happens in the real world, with real consequences. It's silly to deny that it ALSO happens on the internet, albeit in mostly messages-sent-instantaneously-from-strangers-around-the-world form.
3. Acting like Reddit is supposed to be some "bastion of free speech" -- maybe they tried at the beginning, but in recent years they have *explicitly stated* that they are not.
4. Acting like a for-profit, corporate website isn't allowed to moderate its own content for its own demographics. Go tell Nissan they can't remove pro-Honda anti-Nissan posts from their website. Go tell Nickelodeon they can't remove adult topics from theirs.
5. Getting upset and writing angry posts about a feature change on an entertainment website you claim to not like / not care about.
6. The classic derogatory-but-knowingly-meaningless-so-it-can't-be-disputed name-calling (SJW, etc.)
It's not about the users, it's about the appeasing the leftists in the name of "civility". Modbombing doesn't change that a bit =)
Let the alt-creation begin!
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Reddit has gone above and beyond the dreams of Digg's efforts. Not only does Reddit get to do the purges, they didn't have to remove the comments.
If anything, Digg's only mistake was that they launched too early. Had they still existed in their pre-4.0 form, they'd have faithfully followed Nick Denton's "Kassie Washington" request for vengeance - just like about every major forum (Reddit, Fark, various gaming forums) did in 2012-2014+.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
I do believe you have just referred to yourself as a troll.
Can any SINGLE sold-out or crippled redundant inefficient addons do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets/stop C&C's
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets/stop C&C's
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets/stop C&C's
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get by dns blocks
12.) Keep off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Ez data control
16.) Block ads better than addons more efficiently
?
APK
P.S.=> We'll see what's "good" or mediocre, as there's NOTHING in that list I can't backup with ease from reputable sources - I am going to make you 'eat your words' or RUN, "Forrest"... apk
I've always been under the impression that if you are "given" those things you're a cultist and not really stronger than when you started. I believe you have to develop those tools for yourself to be truly healthy.
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See subject: You told ME to 'shut up' in posts parent to the link I post now here? I shut YOU up, easily -> https://slashdot.org/comments....
* Go for it, prove what's in the link's list totally wrong - it's impossible, as hundreds of trolls like you have tried only to fall flat on their faces, lol!
APK
P.S.=> YOU truly fit the 'mental midget' description given in the parent post here to a tee... & it is going to be a PLEASURE shutting YOU up easily (as I can easily back what's in the 2nd link's list from reputable sources)... apk
Don't be too harsh - this one likes following me around and trying to tick me off. Sad, really. :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
OOO can I?
8.) Protect vs. spam
Does it protect against your spam? How does it protect against email spam?
9.) Protect vs. phish
No it doesn't.
10.) Protect vs. caps
We all wish it would protect against your abuse of caps, but it seems to keep failing
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
It protects vs. malicious payload links in them dumbass - the TRUE danger inherent in spam/phish!
* The rest of what you wrote? Stupid bullshit, your usual (failing as usual) & the rest of my points are also, like those above vs. your crap NOW, inviolate...
You're also a blatantly unskilled menial who couldn't produce a program of equal OR better value that does more for less either - you're a joke, proof of THAT is below from your past trolling of myself you useless fuck...
APK
P.S.=> Of course we also KNOW how many times you blew it against myself & ate your words before (keep it up - you'll DIE of malnutrition as eating your words != good nutrition, stupid) -> https://slashdot.org/comments.... - lol!
... apk
You're stalking apk projecting how you fail against him. Some examples are https://slashdot.org/comments.... + https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... + https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... and you said what you did now after those, you troll? That's a laugh. You always start trouble trolling apk and he annihilates you for it. Don't you have any pride? I'd say not based on your trolling fake name online disgusting behaviour and the fact you're a do nothing compared to apk. He really got to you in those links and many others like them didn't he? Absolutely. It's hilarious, and you did it all to yourself.
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg
I like your host file system by Karmashock
I find your hosts file admirable by vel-ex-tech
APK is kinda right. I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works by bmo
APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context by chihowa
I find your hosts file admirable by vel-ex-tech
I've never tried to belittle (APK's) work, I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon
I support APK's stand on the hosts file by Trax3001BBS
APK
See subject: It's more folks than you've got saying you do anything useful or good, now isn't it? Yes, lol - just a fact (what destroys weak trolls like you)...
* Fact: YOU lose/fail, advertiser (trust me, you're NOT the 1st I've caught @ it - probably like the 10th++ or more!)
APK
P.S.=> I think it's utterly hilarious you have to TRY (& fail) attack the messenger (me) vs. my message (impossible since it's nothing but fact)-> https://slashdot.org/comments.... - guess seeing so many trolls (like Coren22 who stalked me all thru here yesterday) fail has you resorting to your last resort - failing illogical off topic ad hominem attacks, "mental midget" (lmao)... apk
See subject & this link: "Rinse Lather & Repeat" https://slashdot.org/comments....
* I simply let other slashdotters do the talking for me against your weak 'mentalmidgetness' - that's all! You're outnumbered not only by MANY orders of magnitude against you, with folks praising my work doing them favors, but also by your own BIG mouth, lol...
(Works EVERY single time vs. fools like you... lol, & even funnier is you dolts are ALL the same, repeating that error vs. myself, every time... 1 definition of insanity? Trying the SAME thing OVER & OVER, expecting different results!)
* I must thank you actually - you make ME, look GOOD!
APK
P.S.=>. Top that off with the additional fact you can't validly technically prove this list wrong https://slashdot.org/comments.... ?
LMAO, you lose bigtime. No doubt about it... apk
See subject: It's not polite to talk with your mouth full as you EAT YOUR WORDS https://slashdot.org/comments.... Hahahaha! You blew your own ass away bigmouth. Priceless!
APK
P.S.=> Again, I also don't see ANYONE saying anything good about your works, now do I? Now, that's a question you HAVE to avoid, now don't you?? Absolutely - the price of being a "ne'er-do-well" troll, & YOU are paying it, lmao... apk
See subject: Here's more to wash down what you had rammed back down your throat here already https://slashdot.org/comments....
"No complaints from me, I like APK's spam. Reminds me to use a host file. Also, his stuff is free." by aaaaaaargh!
"APK was right! Is it time for us to point Sourceforge to a non-address in our hosts files" - by wonkey_monkey
"APK's monolithic hosts file is looking pretty good" - by Culture20
"take a look at the APK hosts file engine"by SuperKendall
"APK... Awesome to see he's still spreading the good word" by Molochi
"dammit MS, you proved APK right" by lgw
"you're right about hosts" by drinkypoo
APK
P.S.=> Want more? I'll be GLAD to oblige you (& nobody speaks well of your work, now do they? Nope, lol!)... apk