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Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by downerending on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:36PM (#22269133)
It's not so much horrible people acting horribly as seeing people that seemed to be good (as observed over a period of years) suddenly turning awful.

At least as seen from here, something fundamentally changed starting around 2015, and a lot of people seemed to have lost their moral compass.

These days I hang out with the sinners. Saints are not to be trusted.

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Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by wutbrodo on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:21PM (#22271095)
Eh, that just seems like a matter of where you set your standards. The environment shifted to slightly reduce the barrier to be horrible, revealing which people were below the new waterline. IMO, if all it took to be horrible to others is a little anonymity and/or groupthink, you weren't that decent a person to begin with.
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