Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin...
by yoz-y on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:02PM
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> I don't know if I know the solution, but I know one thing that isn't the solution: silencing everyone who disagrees with you.
I found that ignoring people on IRC who would sprinkle any conversation with racist or misplaced remarks helped me quite a bit. Of course it only affects me, but even after polite attempts to steer the conversation it never changed. Same on Twitter, at some point there is one of me and many of them, the cost to engage is just too high.
I found that ignoring people on IRC who would sprinkle any conversation with racist or misplaced remarks helped me quite a bit. Of course it only affects me, but even after polite attempts to steer the conversation it never changed. Same on Twitter, at some point there is one of me and many of them, the cost to engage is just too high.