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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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this is Habryka talking about how his moderating skills are so powerful it takes lesswrong three fucking years to block a poster who's actively being a drain on the site

here's his reaction to sneerclub (specifically me - thanks Oliver!) calling LessOnline "wordy racist fest":

A culture of loose status-focused social connection. Fellow sneerers are not trying to build anything together. They are not relying on each other for trade, coordination or anything else. They don't need to develop protocols of communication that produce functional outcomes, they just need to have fun sneering together.

He gets us! He really gets us!

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

lobste.rs just banned an 11 year old account with almost 5,000 comments and 45k karma for being a transphobic jerk. No muss, no fuss, no apologetic blogpost where the user could defend themselves and rile up the masses.

That's how you do it, people.


edit I have now skimmed the comments where banned use Said can explain himself, and he's using his last efforts to nobly defend himself, thanking his admirers, and generally projecting an image of a man wrongly accused.

j/k he's doubling down on being a dick.

[–] scruiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

j/k he’s doubling down on being a dick.

I had kind of gotten my hopes up from the comparisons of him to sneerclub that maybe he'd be funny or incisively cutting or something, but it looks mostly like typical lesswrong pedantry, just less awkwardly straining to be charitable (to the in-group).

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oh, i'm laughing now. it's actually beautiful that it was the anubis' anime jackal girl that forced him to drop the plausible deniability shield and go full queerphobic.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I finally found which user we're talking about and I am quietly delighted at that smarmy fucker being directed to the fourth-floor egress.

edit: here's the long form mod last warning. You'll see in that thread my next prediction for ejection via the fourth floor, whose profile shows he's into crypto.

[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 2 points 17 hours ago

they finally got that asshole? took ’em long enough

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

yeah sorry I had the username ("friendlysock") in a first draft then forgot to add it

good riddance to bad rubbish

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

....why does that username ring bells in my brain

did it show up here somewhat recently? (I ask right before checking search)

(e: nothing immediately in search but I could swear I've seen that name somewhere in the last few months (and not in a good context))

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

smarmy not as cryptic as he thought right-winger on lobsters who didn't quite hide his power level

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

shit you're right, I should search offsite (active) chats too

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

(like, largely it just bugs me where I know the name from (because being baseline horrendous at recalling names and then recognising this one is uhhhh))