• flashgnash@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    2 years ago

    I can’t be the only one who thinks having a bot to go round pestering people for saying things like barmen is a little ridiculous right?

    • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Bots on reddit are just so universally annoying and most of them provide no value at all. Most of them should have been banned on sight anyways.

      • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Blind to ____ / turn a blind eye to ____ / blinded by ignorance/bigotry/etc. / double-blind review Refers to Blind, low-vision, or sight-limited people. Often used as a metaphor. Consider instead: willfully ignorant, deliberately ignoring, turning their back on, overcome by prejudice, doubly anonymous, had every reason to know, feigned ignorance

        Those alternatives dont mean the same thing.

        Double Annoymous seems better

      • flashgnash@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        That’s so dumb, I think you have to be going out of your way to get offended by the word crazy

        • Dog@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          dumb

          omg your ableims is amazingly strong i bet u also like genocide and domestic violence omg

      • TechnoBabble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        That page has to be satire… right?

        The whole “police your language, so there’s no chance anyone could ever be offended” idea is such an oppressive path to a more equal society.

        • eldoom@lemmy.mlEnglish
          0·
          2 years ago

          I mean I hope so? One of the top offensive terms was wheelchair bound…

          • Sr Estegosaurio@lemmy.mlEnglish
            0·
            2 years ago

            Isn’t that just a fact? Like, I get why words such as “removed” should be avoided due to it being an insult et all, but wheelchair bound? English is a funny language so I might be missing something.

            • Liempong_pagong@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              They want to be called "wheeled individual " as being wheelchair bound denotes that they’re restricted /s

        • The-Weapon-X@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 years ago

          That’s a path to inequality, not equality. Trying to silence people because you don’t like certain words is a bit of fascism in itself, which these people claim to be against.

        • GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.mlEnglish
          0·
          2 years ago

          It is a foolish path, but to call it “oppressive” is to tip your hand that you have no real notion of what oppression is if you’re worried about what amounts to a slightly different set of etiquette on a semi-anonymous internet forum.

          • TechnoBabble@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            2 years ago

            This isn’t just a problem on the internet. I run into people in real life who think this way, often.

            How many times have comedians or other entertainers come under fire for jokes or other bits they’ve done? It’s a lot. Comedians will all tell you that they can’t perform in places like New York the same way anymore, because half the things they say get booed from the crowd.

            “Why should I care about Dave Chappelle, or anyone else, getting slammed for some offensive thing they said?”

            Because entertainer’s acts are one of the ways that people come to understand the world around them. Their satire is an important tool for democracy to unravel the bullshit that surrounds them. It’s supposed to be the opposite of sterile.

            And if “dirty language” means that you’re okay silencing those guys, along with everyone else, you are engaging in oppression on a far wider scale than you realize.

              • TechnoBabble@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                who care much more about whether what you said is polite than whether it’s actually a good thing to say.

                This is a great point. So much of the talk around equality is nothing more than pandering to gain social approval.

                And when you see people getting their entire careers ruined over saying the wrong thing once, or even something they said decades ago, it just drives people into the political margins.

                People are more interested in attacking their neighbors for “bigotry” than they are in building a more just society.

                I’m putting bigotry in quotes, because the words and ideas that are considered hateful are constantly changing. If someone doesn’t keep up with the latest fashion in acceptable speech, they may suddenly find themselves opposite to an angry mob.

                The social climate surrounding us is not an accident. The way people respond to their perceived political rivals is not an accident. It’s a result of how unprepared our society is in dealing with social media algorithms that promote engagement through division. And a result of bad actors capitalizing on that division to sow greater unrest.

                This isn’t new. The evidence has been on full display for years. And yet, the damage has been done. There’s simply no social appetite for those who support slow and steady (durable and stable) policy reform.

                The recent political climate on “sides” can be summed up with “You’re either 100% with us, no discussion, or you are our enemy” and that’s where true oppression begins.

    • nekomusumeninaritai@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I suspect if you are trying to build an inclusive community but don’t have a lot of diversity already, the only thing you can really do to change the culture is to remind people to be considerate in the way they speak. And if most people who would be offended aren’t actually part of the community (but you would like them to feel welcome to join), then you might want some bot rather than a person to be the “narc” and remind people to be on their best behavior. So I guess if the mods are the only ones who want to be nice, then yes, it is a bit ridiculous because it will never work. Even if people change their language, they won’t be nice. But if most people want things to change, it could be a helpful way to both remind you to be inclusive and get the few people who would rather talk about how having to say bartender is censorship (without actually defending why they want to make a point of saying “barmen”) to realize that they either have to change the way they talk in that particular community or find a better fit.

  • _s10e@feddit.deEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    They should have replied:

    0 rows changed. OK.

    Or:

    BOT.EXE: Command not found

    just to see if the other guy keeps trying.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’m pretty sure this exact XKCD was posted to Lemmy the other day and is most likely the reason this comment was made entirely.

      • Dog@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        it’s a very very popular xkcd comic strip, much more in the programming community

        because it’s funny

        get it? funny

        i said a funny word (“funny”)

  • onlooker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    How did the author know the poster was in his 40s? Or was it just a guess?

    • Denaton@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, it is a joke on xkcd and the joke is based on SQL injection, a type of database attack.

  • Jakylla@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Don’t know why he’s so annoyed, maybe you didn’t throw his database, but still something happened, I’m pretty sure…