I’ll assume you’re operating in good faith for now, and will give you some advice. Under your current username you will find that a lot of people’s initial response to you will be one of animosity, as 88 is a quite well established dog whistle.
You may also find the wrong people trying to befriend you under the assumption that you’re “one of them” eventually leading to a feeling of betrayal when you realize that the person you’ve been chatting with is actually a really shitty human being.
For a more enjoyable online experience my recommendation would be to establish yourself under a different name to avoid drawing the wrong kind of attention.
I appreciate that. And while my initial commentary may been a bit snarky, there’s just been a lot of bullshit going on.
We’re all on edge, and none of us are perfect. But we try to improve as we go along. Struggle sessions are a chance to improve the community, not to attack each other. The recent one was particularly draining for everyone and led to some missteps and shitty behavior/comments from a lot of people.
I perceived the initial comment in the thread as an attempt to litigate further drama in the community by attacking previous decisions by the mod team and further sapping us of our energy.
Side note; it’s wrecker behavior to sift through someone else’s comments from a private conversation in order to nitpick a quick “gotcha.” I would refrain from such behavior in the future if you value your checks notes 2 month old account.
Continuing to share stuff from other people’s private messages establishes a doxxing risk as it encourages other people to seek out these conversations, of which can include private and sensitive information.
We are continuing to be extremely lenient in this regard, despite it establishing a double standard.
And I’m capable of changing my perspective, are you? I’ve since realized that there these terms serve no real purpose but to be dismissive, and that there are more accurate ways to describe people’s behavior.
Moreover, I am capable of enforcing site policy without agreeing with things 100%, especially when I understand the reason for the policy being put in place. The messages you just shared are from a discussion where various mods were providing their perspectives in order to come to a consensus for site policy.
apologies. The comment and your name made me jump the gun. Coming into a communist forum with 88 in your name is just going to lead to people thinking you’re a nazi, myself included
It’s not infantalizing, it’s keeping derogatory comments out of the community. And while you may not personally find these terms upsetting, that doesn’t mean that others don’t. The decision was made after asking the neurodiverse community at large how to improve the site.
There are neurodiverse members of our community who have been called dumb by their peers, families, and teachers their whole lives. Seeing such terminology be used here can be detrimental to their mental health, and normalizing those terms means they're bound to be used on our neurodiverse comrades if they irk certain people the wrong way.
Have you considered just calling them racist instead?
The decision to avoid such terms was made after getting input from our neurodivergent community: In order to make this a more welcoming environment for them.
I hope you’re not suggesting that we ignore the advice of marginalized groups in our community.
My “I’m not starving countless people” ad is raising a lot of questions already answered by my ad.
Edit: fuck multiple people already made this joke