An excellent reminder that as bad as things might be on our projects, they are partially just a reflection of the broader Internet culture (and a reflection of culture in general). Which means (a) it's not totally on us to fix it all, and (b) even as we try to fix it, there are a lot of allies out there fighting the same battles for civility and respect in other venues.

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Tom Morris <tom@tommorris.org> wrote:

Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web

https://gawker.com/5950981/

"One reason Violentacrez continued to occupy such a high-profile position on Reddit was of course his free speech rhetoric. But Violentacrez has historically had a close relationship with Reddit's staff, a fact far less well-known than his controversial behavior."

"For all his unpleasantness, they realized that Violentacrez was an excellent community moderator and could be counted on to keep the administrators abreast of any illegal content he came across."

Wow, it's like Wikipedia's civility vs. established editors dynamic but with more misogyny, homophobia and racism...

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Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>

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