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Sumana Harihareswara

@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)

13 February at 19:04 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.coop
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Max L.

@brainwane @danhon
Serious question: How do you "police your followers"? As far as I'm aware of only the instance admins/mods can do any moderation action?

13 February at 19:18 | Open on gruene.social
Sumana Harihareswara

@max

"Police" here is perhaps the wrong word! One could:

* argue with the follower if they say something rude
* embarrass the rude follower by saying something like "Sorry, original poster, I regret my follower's behavior here"
* have a chat with the rude follower to say "what led you to do that? don't you have manners?"
* block them

@danhon

13 February at 19:25 | Open on social.coop
Max L.

@brainwane @danhon
Ah, I see. Unfortunately I doubt that helps in most cases :S Also does blocking actually prevent them from interacting with your boosted posts?

13 February at 19:28 | Open on gruene.social
Sumana Harihareswara

@max

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

13 February at 19:30 | Open on social.coop
Sumana Harihareswara

@max

Your replies to me have (I think) assumed that I'm going for ways to use software to maximally prohibit/ban people. But, like @danhon's images, what I'm talking about is not, or not just, on the software level. I'm using conversation as a moderation tool as well. And I'm reducing how much they get to benefit from my presence.

13 February at 19:42 | Open on social.coop
Morgan

@max @brainwane @danhon if someone follows me, they see any posts I boost in their home timeline (unless they have my boosts off but if they're replying to things bc I boosted them, they probably don't). If I block them, they are no longer following me, they won't see my boosts in their home timeline, and they can't go to my page while signed in. They can still see the post, but it requires finding it elsewhere or block evasion

13 February at 19:50 | Open on disabled.social
Tuckers Nuts Resist😈!

@brainwane @max @danhon
🥥 Alternatively: Not responsible for the replies of my followers.
(How many of these superb rules have I just inadvertantly violated?)
This is the most amusing -- and useful -- thread I have seen today.
Mad propz to all the participants.
You have now won all my internetz. 🥥

13 February at 21:57 | Open on mstdn.social
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