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Re:YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of... by johncena33 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:05PM (#26220380)
> These people (the genuine ones) lack context-awareness

No, they are very much aware of the context. Most of these people are just bullies, who have found a new way to mask their toxic behavior in the name of a good cause.

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Re:YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of... by johnisgood on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:32AM (#26221494)
I added "genuine ones" for a reason. There are lots of trolls, that is for sure. I cannot tell if there are more trolls than genuine ones though.

I have seen bots, too. I remember there was a bot that sent pull requests to over 1000 projects if I remember correctly. All the pull requests involved changing words only, such as "blacklist" to "blocklist" or whatever. You know what is funny? Many of them were merged.

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