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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by toyg on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:14PM (#23116403)
Sadly, no. At the beginning it was mostly random people. Unfortunately, you need very little to ruin things - most normal people will not play even with a 10% chance of getting a dong, and the more “normies” leave, the higher that chance gets, in a vicious circle.
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by stronglikedan on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:15PM (#23117762)
Maybe it just normalized to be only "normies", and normal people just happen to really like dongs, even if unspoken?
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by tjr225 on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:53PM (#23121162)
Perhaps, but probably not. How many people use chat roulette today?
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by rexpop on Friday May 08, 2020 @10:27PM (#23121680)
The wants of the recipients aren't represented in the marketplace of dickpics.
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by trianglem on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:27PM (#23117219)
In these confusing times I sometimes tend to forget that being a normie is a good thing.
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by TeMPOraL on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:49PM (#23118083)
That's not the definition of 'normie' I'm familiar with. In fact, I'd expect normies to be the ones showing dongs.
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by recursive on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:44PM (#23119848)
Normie means unremarkable middle-of-the-road as far as I know.

Showing dongs in anonymous video chats is not what I'd expect from a normie.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by sullyj3 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:17AM (#23123772)
The dynamics here reminds me of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by throwaway13337 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @11:13AM (#23125324)
That's an interesting blog post.

As an aside, I've noticed exactly what the author mentions in it happening in hacker news recently - there is a shift in politics to less tolerance. I've reduced my own viewing because of it.

I suppose it will just re-enforce that lack of tolerance.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by enjo on Friday May 08, 2020 @09:29PM (#23121338)
I was on Chat Roulette very early.. and maybe my memory is bad (I'm getting old) but I remember it being dongs pretty much from day one.
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