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1. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 18-Feb-2016 09:20:35 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

   • tuttle
   @tuttle I think that's the only scalable method of keeping it civilised.
   • Moving (some day) To Federati...can no longer change usernames (daw@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Feb-2016 03:46:44 UTC Moving (some day) To Federati...can no longer change usernames

     • Jeff Ratliff
     I mean, individual instances can do what they want…the NAZIs will just move to another instance…
   • ghostDancer (ghostdancer@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 18-Feb-2016 08:39:04 UTC ghostDancer

     • Jeff Ratliff
     ♺ @gomerx: Do people really think an idea doesn't exist because we keep someone from speaking it?
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 18-Feb-2016 08:45:34 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

     • Jeff Ratliff
     @gomerx There's however a difference between discussing something and arguing senselessly. If someone runs into a room, shouting shit and not listening to anyone else's point of view then that person should be thrown out.
     Perhaps you're just not used to some of the more senseless internet discussions that can appear and destroy communities because they're not moderated properly (some hackerspaces get really nasty with misogynistic assholes demanding their right to say whatever they want about anything they want fir example, because "dun censor mah free speech").
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   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 18-Feb-2016 08:49:00 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

     in reply to

     • ghostDancer
     • Jeff Ratliff
     @ghostdancer @gomerx Sometimes it's just not worth taking the time to educate some people. We got a new word for this in Swedish recently btw, describing these kinds of lost hopes, that means essentially "fact resistent".
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   • pettter ✅ (pettter@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 18-Feb-2016 09:41:00 UTC pettter ✅

     in reply to

     • the federated universe
     A swedish blogger put it pretty nicely a few weeks ago regarding moderating his own comment field: It's not about filtering out things you don't want to hear, it's about filtering in a usable and valuable conversation, i.e. removing things that do not contribute to that conversation, such as abuse, insults, and all kinds of disrespectful and domineering discourse.
     
     Also, people who do not want to participate in a conversation, but rather just spout crap, or get cheers (and jeers), and specifically, not actually read or listen to others (as nazis and that ilk are prone to doing), should indeed get banned.
     
     In the !fediverse, It's really about what you want to host on your own computer. If you want to give nazis a platform, feel free, but when/if I run my own server, I'll feel just as free to not federate with instances hosting nazis (or spam for that matter), since those users generally do not want conversation.
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