"This comment appears to dismiss the complexity of discussions about dogwhistles by claiming that 'everything is a dogwhistle.' This type of blanket statement can undermine the seriousness of genuinely harmful coded language, and can trivialize valid concerns about discrimination and manipulation in discourse."
replyWe've dialed "dog whistles" way back -- thanks for the feedback.
replyJust remember every time you tweak the defaults, the 90% of your site owners using those defaults suddenly have a significant shift in their moderation policy that they are themselves unaware of.
reply(I moderated a vBulletin forum in the 1990s. This shit gets really, really, really hard, and no one is ever really happy with it.)
Sorry -- should have been more clear: We are shifting the defaults on the demo site, not on respectify itself.
replyThanks for a great point, though. Finding the best defaults will be very important, and we can't tweak it like that very often if at all.
>>(I moderated a vBulletin forum in the 1990s. This shit gets really, really, really hard, and no one is ever really happy with it.<<
replyI feel that. I used to moderate the Object Pascal Compuserve forum. That was hard enough!
This one was for gamers.
replyI’m pretty sure we created a few budding lawyers out of some high schoolers.