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Nix project: ban? What ban?
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Yeah it just feels dirty to me, I usually try to set those kinds of features to private the moment I become aware of them. (And I certainly have digged into peoples posts here before and then kept the info to myself as while what I found wasn't great I think doing a sort of helldump (I think that was the term) even on chuds is a bit eurgh. Esp when the people themselves are just random people with a hundred followers. (Of course this depends on the type of person, neo-nazi types I'm a lot less friendlier to than other random meh people, like this attempt above at trying to put the 'our community blew up' back into the bottle tone police guy (that is the type of person they seem to be on reading my initial comment, didn't dig further)).
"Helldump" is my new favorite term for that
Sometimes you find really crazy stuff in people's histories. This year, I've found a Black neo-nazi, an alt-right plural system, and a Thelemist who is just so beyond the pale I literally cannot paraphrase what they said and have to quote it in full: https://www.reddit.com/user/Nexist418/comments/i6is83/banned_reddits_and_the_reasons_if_known/
I just follow the prime directive with these people, but I think it's mostly because I'm not good enough with words to accomplish anything by confronting them. I remember this one impassioned thread on like, /r/HarryPotter or maybe /r/books about HPMoR and all the crazy TREACLES stuff. And I understood them completely, but I felt bad because it had like, two comments, and neither really got what OP was trying to communicate. They were like, "I love HPMoR, it's so upsetting that bad people online co-opted it! That's crazy. Thanks for the heads up!"
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