Comments by "B Nic" (@bnic9471) on "SJW Gestapo Bans Porn on Tumblr (Good Riddance to a Dying Website)" video.

  1. Trying REAL hard to care about Tumblr. Nevertheless, their touchy-feely catering behavior reminds me of Usenet 20 years ago, in some newsgroups, where <<safety>> issues and trigger warnings suddenly became necessary to keep the BPD flamers from emoting all over Every. Fucking. Thread. Except the more careful people got about not wounding sensibilities, the more woundable and obnoxious people got. Because it haz teh feeelz about foo. Those newsgroups became embroiled in heterodyning feelings management. They were holding the Hypersensitivity Olympics and breaking and re breaking the record for hottest temper and finest whine. That was in infertility newsgroups, heavily peopled by affluent, frustrated women. I learned something from that. I later started a moderated Yahoo group dealing with uterine anomalies, and it ballooned to 4,000 members. Almost no flame wars, thanks to the guidelines I came up with. People having trouble reproducing really do become emotional and superstitious, so I suggested that everybody be nice and warn if pregnancy or miscarriage would be mentioned in a post. BUT: if somebody forgot or didn't know to do a trigger warning, just pull up your big girl panties and be quiet. Or just get out. The other guidelines were stuff like: we all have our beliefs, so try not to parade your own around like a Torah at a bat mitzvah. Also, spammers will be flushed down the bit toilet, and "We love YOU, but not your bullshit about Amway or Tupperware, so don't pull that out, either." It worked well, since we didn't want to micromanage feelings, topics, or escalate or reward tantrums.
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