The What Are You Wearing Today (WAYWT) Discussion Thread, Part II

[jet]



Like your butt.

thank you, many people do

 

[Mr. Moo]



thank you, many people do

 

[fireflygrave]

what the actual ****

 

[e0d9n0b5]

lol @ all these ppl without massive ignore lists. like 1/4-1/3 of every page is hidden for me, and it actually makes this thread readable

 

[lesamourai]

 

[nahneun]

butthurts don't troll. they're just butthurt.

are you auditioning to be the new face of goatse, moo?

 

[Mr. Moo]



butthurts don't troll. they're just butthurt.

are you auditioning to be the new face of goatse, moo?

Only after your final audition for **********

 

[in stitches]



I MISSED YOU STITCHY

And I you, buddy. Think of all the alcohol we could have consumed together.

I think @Cotton Dockers
 has a pair or two that have shown up here

I didnt like them in his fits. NO H8!!

what the actual ****

This, along with "what the ****," are two of my favorite phrases.

 

[potemkin_city_limits]

RRL Hat, Buzz Rickson Loopwheeled Crewneck Sweatshirt, Mister Freedom Ranch Blouse, Klaxon Howl “Bund” Leather Flyers Jacket.

 

[Mr. Moo]

It takes a lot to make a stew
A pinch of salt and laughter too
A scoop of kids to add the spice
A dash of love to make it nice
And you've got...

Too many cooks (x8)

It takes a lot to make a stew
But when it comes to me and you
and him, and her, and the baby too
Too many cooks it's true
The saying goes it'll spoil the broth
Honey I think that's not true
Well maybe too many cooks will spoil the broth
but they'll fill our hearts with so much, so much love
...too many cooks

A family is like a soup
Everyone adds an extra scoop
Mix an ounce of smiles so sweet
A dash of cool to add the heat
And you've got

Too many cooks (x18)

It takes a lot to make a stew
Especially when it's me and you
and him, and Steve from corporate too
Too many cooks it's true
The saying goes it'll spoil the broth
Honey I think that's not true
Well maybe too many cooks will spoil the broth
but they'll fill our hearts with so much, so much love
so much love, fill our hearts with love...

Too many cooks (x19)

It takes a lot to make a stew
I couldn't face these streets without you
A dash of crime to add some spice
The city's like a pressure cooker turned up too high

Some people say it'll spoil the broth
But that's not the american way
Too many cooks
Too many cooks will serve a helping of freedom and resist the forces of evil

 

[brad-t]



lol @ all these ppl without massive ignore lists. like 1/4-1/3 of every page is hidden for me, and it actually makes this thread readable

Ignore lists are great for individual users, but bad for communities in general:

As we build Discourse, I've discovered that I am deeply opposed to mute and block functions. I think that's because the whole concept of Discourse is that it is your house. And mute and ignore, while arguably unavoidable for large worldwide communities, are actively dangerous for smaller communities. Here's why.

It allows you to ignore bad behavior. If someone is hateful or harassing, why complain? Just mute. No more problem. Except everyone else still gets to see a person being hateful or harassing to another human being in public. Which means you are now sending a message to all other readers that this is behavior that is OK and accepted in your house.

It puts the burden on the user. A kind of victim blaming — if someone is rude to you, then "why didn't you just mute / block them?" The solution is right there in front of you, why didn't you learn to use the software right? Why don't you take some responsibility and take action to stop the person abusing you? Every single time it happens, over and over again?

It does not address the problematic behavior. A mute is invisible to everyone. So the person who is getting muted by 10 other users is getting zero feedback that their behavior is causing problems. It's also giving zero feedback to moderators that this person should probably get an intervention at the very least, if not outright suspended. It's so bad that people are building their own crowdsourced block lists for Twitter.

It causes discussions to break down. Fine, you mute someone, so you "never" see that person's posts. But then another user you like quotes the muted user in their post, or references their @name, or replies to their post. Do you then suppress just the quoted section? Suppress the @name? Suppress all replies to their posts, too? This leaves big holes in the conversation and presents many hairy technical challenges. Given enough personal mutes and blocks and ignores, all conversation becomes a weird patchwork of partially visible statements.

This is your house and your rules. This isn't Twitter or Facebook or some other giant public website with an expectation that "everyone" will be welcome. This is your house, with your rules, and your community. If someone can't behave themselves to the point that they are consistently rude and obnoxious and unkind to others, you don't ask the other people in the house to please ignore it – you ask them to leave your house. Engendering some weird expectation of "everyone is allowed here" sends the wrong message. Otherwise your house no longer belongs to you, and that's a very bad place to be.

If the general rule of thumb is to ignore a particular user — as is the case with Mr. Moo, whose sole role (and he just admitted as such) is to be a **** disturber, that user should just be kicked out of the community.

 

[StanleyVanBuren]

I, too, have seen funny things on the internet

 

[basil rathbone]

I am an unsuccessful, apartment-renting, non-family man without a career and have zero kids. Haven't found any success trolling geeks for years, but I can't say I ever tried.

Found this cool door though.

 

[brad-t]



I am an unsuccessful, apartment-renting, non-family man without a career and have zero kids.

this is the most emotionally resonant thing i've ever read

 

[Mr. Moo]



I am an unsuccessful, apartment-renting, non-family man without a career and have zero kids. Haven't found any success trolling geeks for years, but I can't say I ever tried.

Don't worry, it's not all it's cracked up to be.