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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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Oliver Habryka truly understands the soul of SneerClub (www.lesswrong.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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this is Habryka talking about how his moderating skills are so powerful it takes lesswrong three fucking years to block a poster who's actively being a drain on the site

here's his reaction to sneerclub (specifically me - thanks Oliver!) calling LessOnline "wordy racist fest":

A culture of loose status-focused social connection. Fellow sneerers are not trying to build anything together. They are not relying on each other for trade, coordination or anything else. They don't need to develop protocols of communication that produce functional outcomes, they just need to have fun sneering together.

He gets us! He really gets us!

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

That it took this long to ban this guy and this many words is so delicious. What a failure of a community. What a failure in moderation.

Based on the words and analogies in that post: participating in LW must be like being in a circlejerk where everyone sucks at circlejerking. Guys like Said run around the circle yelling at them about how their technique sucks and that they should feel bad. Then they chase him out and continue to be bad at mutual jorkin.

E: That they don’t see the humor in sneering at “celebrating blogging” and that it’s supposedly us at our worst is very funny.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

you can tell the real problem was I called them racist

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You live rent-free in so many big ol noggins.

All that acreage has to be adding up. Have you ever considered going into real estate?

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