iffy is not a common international english word and hard to understand for non-native English speakers
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Are words like 'stupid' and 'crazy' considered slurs here
No?? Can't think of any context in which they would be
punk-ass bitch? sexy fuccboi? plant? bratwurst? nword when used by a PoC? Any of those?
Well I only know what some of those mean, but pretty much any normal swear is allowed, including bitch as long as it's not being used in a derogatory sense towards women. The n-word is blanket banned not because I have any problem with black people using it, but rather because I don't have any way of verifying that the people using it are actually black. Same goes for other slurs that have been reclaimed.
That's good
I was on Raddle and they treat those words like they're equivalent to the r-slur, so it's good to have a Reddit alternative with at least a shred of sanity
r-slur
redditor?
shhhh you can't say r*dditor here
Lmao i thought I was the only one that remembered Raddle
There are some communities that consider them to be slurs against neurodivergent people. There's definitely an argument to be made there but at the same time they're so commonly used to refer to neurotypical people as well that it's also easy to argue that they don't do enough harm to be considered slurs.
bruh idiot hasn't been a slur since the 1800s what are those mods from fucking bloodborne or smth
Methinks perchance they've been imbibing the 40-rod.
????
Translation: "I believe they may have been drinking heavily."
Ah. No, actually. I don't drink.
They were referring to the mods from bloodborne
I'm fucking stupid
Why do you have mods who have advanced the claim that Jews deserved the Holocaust because "Communism is just as genocidal as Naziism" and it's really a tit-for-tat?
Wtf no we don't. I'm the only actual mod and I'm JEWISH like
Do I have to link to an article explaining that Double Genocide Theory was created by Nazis and their sympathizers to JUSTIFY the Holocaust after denial failed?
Can you please ban me for 5 days so that I know what it looks like on this platform?
I'll ban you for one day because you didn't do anything against the rules
It was fine. Thanks.
No problem
can you ban me for 10 minutes?
Permaban this fool 😈
communism good; capitalism bad; is that iffy?
None of us have any issue with communists
Question is Lemmy.world affiliated with the tankies that made lemmygrad or is it separate? I didn't know about any of this prior so now I'm worried a bit
No. It is not
I may be stupid but did you mean not affiliated or not separate?
Not affiliated
Finally. I am returned.
I was very randomly banned from the "real" 196 and never got unbanned, even after notifying the admins 3 times without response.
Also: Fuck Reddits CEOs.
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maybe consider (temporarily? permanently?) hiding vote-count on posts, to make it seem less dead in here. it doesn't matter how many votes a post has; it just matters whether it's higher or lower than others. for functional reasons, at least.
I've got vote counts hidden in my UI so things don't feel dead for me, it also helps me resist group think to a varying extent
I don't think that's a good idea. Also, it isn't dead in here by any measure
i'm seeing nine posts in the last hour, and top rated post of all time at 680 upvotes, both figures being below 1/10th of what appear(ed) on the sub.
that's by reddit measure, which is "a" measure, the only one most of us have for reference. i suggested upvote hiding because the reduced count may be discouraging.
they are not bad in themselves, however: if i were, say, moderating this place, I'd say these numbers are too damn high because scary x3. and yes, they're high as hell for general lemmy standards; from everywhere I've looked, that's obvious.
but the "Reddit perspective" is my reasoning for my suggestion, and i think those reasons will fade away anyway as people acclimate to these new figures, much like someone gets used to big numbers being normal on Japanese restaurant menus.
thanks for running this place; i think you're doing a great job of saving some of this culture
I understand where you're coming from, and really appreciate the input but I think people will find it stranger to have no upvotes vs the community just feelig like it's in a budding phase
Personally it would make the community feel more dead if anything. I like to see some engagement over none
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