Because some people seek to "improve" the way they feel (in a relative way) by trying to make everyone else feel worse than them. It's sad and counterproductive, but it happens a lot.
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Because what's rude to one person is funny to another. Ever heard of stand up comedy?
Oh neat! I will enable this post haste!
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It's sad that you have a classic Gaiking avatar (childhood fave!) but don't seem to recognise that hey, maybe people don't want that kind of comedy around them. Maybe learn to judge the situation better and do stuff like that around like-minded people? I dunno. I manage that.
People can simply ignore it. But they don't have to get all butt hurt by it. You don't agree people generally are over reacting these days?
I see people here overreacting to the possibility their trolling days may be coming to end. I see anti feminists getting quite antsy and loud over their society progressing. So yes. I guess I do see that.
my post was in general.. i was talking generally people are offended easily, not just instagram. i went a little off topic, sorry.
This looks like it's just going to censor bad words... like how most forums do. Why are all you people complaining about political correctness? It has nothing to do with that. If they wanted that, they'd need some AI to filter out people who assume pronouns or don't "check their privilege," LOL.
In your first scenario that person would get stomped quickly. Personally I don't communicate with my actual friends online. We do that in person or actually talk on the phone. There is no one online that I have any connection to that I can't drop at any moment. Someone I do not know saying cruel things mean nothing to me. It's as simple as not using a website or service. I don't need it to survive. If this very conversation turned in a way I don't like. I'll just walk away because it costs me nothing.
I have a number good friends who don't like to talk on the phone, and much prefer messaging - my wife, in particular, was like that, she detested having to actually talk to anyone on the phone; talking in person was great, otherwise Messages was the preferred form of communication. It's clearly a personal preference, and not necessarily generational or cultural. And I have a number of friends in other states and countries, with whom in-person conversations are rare and voice calls are inconvenient. So, again, messaging (Messages.app or otherwise) wins out. As to the scenario I described, yes it doesn't translate to online communities 100% for a variety of reasons, but the bit you're skipping over is, in the scenario you like the rest of the party conversation, it's one jerk that you don't know who is causing trouble - what you're suggesting (simply not using the service), is walking away from the conversation you were enjoying with all those other people, essentially letting the jerk dictate whom you talk to (which is both sad, and irritating to let the jerk prevail). In that case, I think having a way to mute the jerk is quite useful. I get that you don't have any strong attachments to any online communities. I'm saying, plenty of others do, and the answer isn't just, "well give that up".
I'm about to blow your mind: disagreement is not hate. Stop conflating them and acting as though the majority of people are mindless trolls. Substituting discourse for ideological safety is a horrible idea that doesn't need explanation to anyone with even the most basic understanding of politics.
Brilliant idea! Don't forget, us old farts can have safe spaces, too:
My trigger word list:
Instag**m,
Fa*cb**k,
Tw**ter,
P*k*mon G*,
S*c**l N*tw*rk*ng in general
W*tch B*nds,
Em*t*c*ns
F*tn*ss M*n*t*r*ng
R*s* G*ld Macbooks
My trigger word list:
Instag**m,
Fa*cb**k,
Tw**ter,
P*k*mon G*,
S*c**l N*tw*rk*ng in general
W*tch B*nds,
Em*t*c*ns
F*tn*ss M*n*t*r*ng
R*s* G*ld Macbooks
Social networking sucks - it's only there to declare war on the fabric of America through the guise of Political Correctness and Social Justice Warriors. SAD!
Yes, but why should someone have to read how F*&&*^ awesome a photo is when they read the comments. I mean, seriously, couldn't people use more polite language when commenting on random things on the internet?
I like the idea of word filtering as an *** OPTION ***.
What happened to "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"?
I don't understand why there is one set of conduct for "in real life" people and a second, nearly reversed, set of conduct for "internet" people. Everyone is real.
Because you're often anonymous on the Internet. Around the time I was born, people were doing the same thing with markers in school bathroom stalls.
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Yeah, but I use to have a cursing censor Safari plugin so my parents wouldn't see nasty YouTube comments on my screen and get mad.
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Clearly we are of different generations. My generation *was* the kids writing on the bathroom stalls, and we didn't have the internet when I was in high school.
It's good to have class and respect for others. It will serve you well in life.
Problem is a lot of people don't respond the way you're describing, with "disagreement." They respond with a bunch of personal attacks, which is stupid. Check out the comments section on any mainstream YouTube video. I don't see why it should be harmful, but I also don't want to bother going on websites where people do that... unless it's really entertaining the way they do it.
We live in a world where Hillary Clinton has an article on her campaign website attempting to link Donald Trump to white supremacy through Pepe the frog. Its time to give up this politically correct "everyone has an equal opinion" BS. We NEED to shame people for being stupid. I don't care if you find it on YouTube, the campaign trail, or the grocery store. We have to stop this. No more idiots who don't even know Biden is the VP running around shooting their mouths off about how virtuous they are because they believe in global warming or putting tampons in men's bathrooms or whatever. When this shaming comes with a legitimate argument, that's great, but a personal attack isn't necessarily hate, and even when it is, there's nothing wrong with hating stupidity. You can't explain stupid is to stupid does, so don't blame people for not wanting to waste their time trying.