Arbitrary rules against self-promotion were always meant to deter spammers, not prolific contributors. But that’s how they’re weaponized by gatekeepers on every message board.
If there’s one thing that sucks about this website, IMO, it’s the self-promo rule & how it gets “enforced” (or perhaps how it doesn’t) .
There’s no apolitical way to decide who is an asshole. soatok certainly has some acerbicly-stated strong opinions, some of which I think are wrong or reflect poorly on his value system. This doesn’t mean he isn’t being censored, or that his arguably-assholish opinions aren’t being selectively classified as assholishness (when equally-acerbicly-stated negative opinions about a topic with different political valence wouldn’t be), to make moderators feel better about moderating his words.
I’m not above being an asshole sometimes. You need only read some of my blog posts in the past year to know that much. But you need to balance it with something.
Sometimes you have to be an asshole to someone to be kind to others. Kindness is not niceness, after all.
I don’t think the author fails to realize he’s an asshole, or claims to not be one.
If there’s one thing that sucks about this website, IMO, it’s the self-promo rule & how it gets “enforced” (or perhaps how it doesn’t) .
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Wow; say what you mean, why don’t you?
(with a link to a specific comment in a thread from 2 days ago.)
I was surprised, but then saw ~soatok logged off earlier this year having deciding he’s being censored (!!!!!!) after years of well-received submissions and, well, welp! Funny how reliably the one shouting asshole acts like one.
There’s no apolitical way to decide who is an asshole. soatok certainly has some acerbicly-stated strong opinions, some of which I think are wrong or reflect poorly on his value system. This doesn’t mean he isn’t being censored, or that his arguably-assholish opinions aren’t being selectively classified as assholishness (when equally-acerbicly-stated negative opinions about a topic with different political valence wouldn’t be), to make moderators feel better about moderating his words.
Yes, I basically agree.
From the article:
I don’t think the author fails to realize he’s an asshole, or claims to not be one.
No, he pretends his being an asshole is justified when he does it, because it’s for the sake of being kind to others.
Is it pretending, or believing?
Neat. It’s important for tech to realize it’s human.
Not sure this is really on topic…
Yeah, it’s not programming related at all.
That was quite an unexpected pivot at the end there.