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Comment Re:I know it may sound insensitive (Score 1) 619

I'm actually quite happy to put them in spam. If there is, for instance, a university that some kid who has no business in university (I'm looking at you, "Cor Ey", and if by some small chance you are, in fact, reading this you are, in fact, an idiot) signs up for with a bogus address, and they don't send a fucking confirmation link, they deserve to have their outgoing emails marked as spam.

Same goes for cable bills, etc. The people who's responsibility it was to make sure those emails don't get to me are... not me. Maybe if someone's cable gets cut off for nonpayment because their bills went into the spam folder, instead of the snail mail box as God and Ben Franklin intended, they'll work harder at getting their own fucking email address right.

Comment Ditto (Score 1) 619

If it's a personal email, I mail them back and let them know they've got the wrong guy. If it's some web site that they've signed up for, I'll try to log in and leave a comment to their profile. I've gone as far as poked around for phone numbers and called and texted them (that freaks people out, but... not my problem). I'll also often change the email to "not(address)@(domain)" and even sometimes randomize the password.

Some of the no reply ones I've marked as spam, and there's at least a couple of people (individuals) who I've emailed back more than once and told them I'm not their guy. No response, and continued emails. Those go into the spam folder also.

Comment Re:The government can't do anything right? (Score 1) 260

The purpose of government is to bring economy of scale to projects that would fail if profit were the sole motivator.

Voluntary exchange of goods and/or services is not the only way the majority make their "demand" known. More to the point: if the majority wanted a voluntary-anarchist stateless society, we'd have that.

Comment Don't judge the rules; judge the evidence (Score 1) 111

Require that abuse reports include a freeform description of why the suspected content violates the rules.

Then, don't ask the jurors whether the content violates the rules. Instead, ask them: Is (the freeform description) a true statement about the suspected content?

In other words: someone reports content for violation of TOS. Reason: "This content contains nudity."

The juror then gets the moderation request, and they answer a single question. Is: "This content contains nudity" true about the suspected content?

You're not judging the rules; you're judging the evidence.

Comment Re:We must be politically correct. (Score 0) 671

Right. God forbid that we should display some simple human decency and maybe some sensitivity.

What the fuck has happened to people? This is a mother mourning her child, for god's sake. I'm not giving much of a fuck right now about a multi-billion dollar corporation and their next license to print money.

If having some basic human decency is "politically correct" then fuckin' A. I'm as politically correct as they come.

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