 made some more tongue-in-cheek ha-ha no-seriously images to help you manage replies in lieu of affordances to help you manage replies please steal and use if you find useful or so help me funny 1. Do not reply unless you have direct experience YOU MAY REPLY if you have a suggestion or request for another helpful informational message. more in thread + https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdZ8F 167 comments
   @danhon βI know how to use search enginesβ (related to the first, but broader, maybe) @thomasfuchs @danhon Especially given how that description seems much more quintessentially British! Started putting these in a Flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/danhon/albums/72177720314761105 DO NOT REPLY WITH A SUGGESTION FOR ME TO UPLOAD THEM SOMEWHERE FOSS  5. Do not reply to tell me to use open source software Full album at https://www.flickr.com/photos/danhon/albums/72177720314761105    @danhon (switching immediately to the first client that offers these as a macro with proper alt-text) @danhon "Do not reply to tell me the problem is capitalism."  @danhon How open "OPEN THIS POST ON MY INSTANCE TO SEE ALL REPLIES BEFORE ADDING YOURS"? Most of these are more specific versions of the βThis is an observation / do not attempt to help / no reply necessary" first, general one, it seems.  it would be more efficient to have reply-sticker-generator dot org but i'm sure i have, like, actual work to do      @danhon is it ok if I put these on a little cookie-less website with ready-to-copy alt text?        @danhon What about adding threatened sanctions? "Do not ... or I will ..." to make the fediverse a really friendly place.  @danhon Thank you for these! How about: Do not boost (or: only boost if you will also police your followers in the replies) Do not snitch (as in: if I have deliberately avoided using a particular string here to avoid hostile searches, don't betray me) Do not repeat (go to the trouble of reading existing replies before posting yours)  @brainwane @danhon "Police" here is perhaps the wrong word! One could: * argue with the follower if they say something rude @brainwane @danhon I figure, if I block someone, that reduces how often I will be the conduit through which they see posts I make or boost, and thus reduce how often I will be a contributing factor to them being rude to me or someone I'm boosting.  @danhon These are great. My suggestion: Do not reply if you can't imagine why I need to do this. I hate comments suggesting I do a completely different thing because the commenter can't imagine why what I want to do would ever be necessary. @danhon βDO NOT REPLY UNLESS YOU HAVE DIRECT EXPERIENCEβ - Oh wow, my inner monologue has been screaming this one at work for the last couple of weeks (I know itβs not the intended target of that image, but so many βhave never touched a keyboard to codeβ people suggesting we build features the most asinine way has wore me out lately) @danhon Suggestion: Do not reply to tell me that the cloud is someone else's computer.  @danhon @kidskylark How about: DO NOT REPLY TO TELL ME TO DO SOMETHING TANGENTIALLY RELATED INSTEAD @uxmark Hahaha, I'm both annoyed by folks who do that and also possibly guilty of doing it to others.π³ @glightly And as threads get longer and βtangentially relatedβ suggestions accumulate, itβs like a warped game of telephone π   @danhon idk how exactly to phrase it but I'd probably use one to say something along the lines of "just because I am interacting with my moots and I have light skin does NOT mean it's appropriate to respond with the whitest message I have ever seen" bc racists seem to take my avatar as an indication that I'll agree with them π  @danhon I wonder if Mastodon could easily implement an Only Allow Replies From People I Follow checkbox. (Yes: a software suggestion.)    @danhon this is amazing. It reminds me a little bit of TLP levels (ARG -- Anti-Reply-Guy -- levels?) @danhon missing 'do not reply unless your direct experience matches my scenario.' I've long been inoculated against this due to a general lack of patience + inattentive ADD, but sometimes this would be easier Another might be 'do not reply with chatGPT/AI prompt output'  @danhon Damn, I feel bad replying as I feel I'm falling into one of these situations that need another image (sort of no need to reply for typos, just keep the idea). Btw, I'm stealing them π  I think this is an excellent idea. I also think that the white space between the languages is better than not having it. @danhon π @danhon "do not reply unless you have read all the replies on the original instance to see if someone already said what you were going to say" seems to be a common problem with activitypub-microblogging @danhon i'm often in need of a unilateral "germans DNI" sign tbh but maybe that would be too on the nose,  @danhon This should become a native Mastodon feature :lolsob:β   I would make it simpler and shorter, as many people are not posting on their mother tongue. Something like DO NOT REPLY ..    @danhon Actually I love this.. while the default should always be for people to be welcome to rely and disagree.. some people may specifically not want that, and I do agree it should be assumed open and welcoming unless explicitly stated otherwise. So these seem like a good way to do that.   @danhon The more I read this thread the more toxic this gets. Definitely going to block you. |
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@GottaLaff β¬οΈ Iβm sure you could adapt this idea? π§π