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Re:Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cit... by archagon on Friday July 25, 2025 @04:19PM (#44687945)
If I dated somebody who was abusive or a cheater, I would absolutely want everyone in their future dating pool to know. There's nothing evil about that; if anything, it's more "evil" to stay silent and let innocent people get hurt.
Re:Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cit... by archagon on Friday July 25, 2025 @09:09PM (#44690384)
(Wow, look at those downvotes! And I assumed this was a fairly uncontroversial statement. It's hard not to come to the conclusion that there's a sizable number of cheaters in the audience.)
Re:Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cit... by OutOfHere on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:26PM (#44690771)
The issue is that no one knows who posts the truth and who posts exaggerations or lies. People can sometimes have a personal vendetta that is rooted in emotion or even idiocy. I imagine that the app isn't exactly set up to vote on assertions with personal accounts, to allow the truth to emerge.

I will tell you a very simple way to avoid cheaters if that's your goal. Look at their interests. Do their interests involve meeting people and doing lots of social things? Or are they more of an academic type? If they're the former, odds are they will cheat on you eventually. I basically told my partner directly that it's impossible for any man to truly promise that he will never cheat, but my interests make it extremely unlikely that I will, and she was okay with this assertion.

Re:Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cit... by sillyfluke on Saturday July 26, 2025 @07:51AM (#44693361)
I agree that this take should be very uncontroversial and innocuous under normal circumstances. Your other comment got flagged to death because commenting about being downvoted is against the guidelines.

Frankly I'm against downvoting people simply because I disagree with them, but I think you have to admit you haven't really addressed the problem mentioned in this thread. The whole issue here is the "a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth puts their boots on" phenomenon of the social media virality era.

It's a difficult problem to solve, but if you have a suggestion for allowing people to help others avoid abusive people without ruining innocent people's lives on the way I'm sure some people here would be curious.