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One thing aggressive blocking reveals is that harebrained trolling bait posts are always coming from the same people; I barely see them anymore unless someone makes an actual quote post screenshot.
Moderation can only go so far (and hopefully removes the most egregious problem posters and servers) but curating your feed with muting and blocking when the vibes are off. Arguing if someone is wrong on the Internet may be cathartic but muting and blocking pays real dividends for later.
@thomasfuchs yes!
but also (and I'm fine if you block me, but an account with 25k followers needs to know/hear this):
"harebrained" is ableist.
@smeschmesch @thomasfuchs The term "harebrained" derives from the apparently meaningless antics of hares, so I don't really get why it's ableist? It's a metaphor for a kind of behavior, not based on any kind of human disability, and I don't believe it was ever used as a medical term.
@mathew @smeschmesch yes, it’s not and was never a medical term, just as shitfaced isn’t
of course it's not a medical term. "Spatzenhirn" isn't either and it's still ableist.
the brain is not "like a the brain of a hare" and therefore bad/broken/deficient.
still ableist. still wrong.
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