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Please

Posted Feb 26, 2021 23:58 UTC (Fri) by jrn (subscriber, #64214)
In reply to: Please by JoeBuck
Parent article: Fedora and fallback DNS servers

For what it's worth, I appreciate Jon's comments when he intervenes. They are tasteful and help set the tone for everyone else — they make it clear what kind of engagement is expected in *other* threads.

It may be that additional moderation features are also needed (though I've been coping okay with the killfile equivalent) but I don't want to see this other tool for good go away.

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Posted Mar 5, 2021 22:40 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I just want to post a “me too” to this. Having a human tell me when I've done something to elicit a reaction - good or bad - carries infinitely more weight than passive-aggressive externalities codified in software. The moderation style on this site, sadly unusual as it is in this day and age, works better than anything else I've seen.

We don't have an endemic unchecked plague of trolls here partly because it doesn't present a UI up front that sets expectations that they're part of the system. I can guarantee the second something with countable numbers were to be added, there'd be crowds trying to gamify it in all directions — it's already bad enough when I see a large user ID or reply count and brace for the worst.

(Here's where I'd apologise for veering so far off topic, but I think arguing over software-political DNS hijacking is a horse that's already been flogged into dust.)