I just built some widgets for the admins on LW, so that posts by newbies and reported comments automatically show up in a sidebar where moderators automatically have to pay attention to them, approving or deleting them or sometimes taking more complicated actions.
And… woahman, it’s like shining a flashlight into a cave that you knew was going to be kinda gross, but you weren’t really prepared to a million spiders suddenly illuminated. The underbelly of LW, posts and comments you don’t even see anymore because we installed karma filters on the frontpage.
There’s a webcomic called Goblins, where one goblin decided to become a paladin, and gains the ability to Detect Evil. And suddenly is confronted with all the evil lurking about, in the shadows of people’s hearts, literal shadows, and sometimes in broad daylight. And he’s describing this to a fellow goblin, and they’re like “Holy hell, how can you live like that!? Why would you choose to _force_ yourself to see the evil around you?”
And Goblin A nods gravely and says “so that you don’t have to.”
[cn: spiders I guess?]
I just built some widgets for the admins on LW, so that posts by newbies and reported comments automatically show up in a sidebar where moderators automatically have to pay attention to them, approving or deleting them or sometimes taking more complicated actions.
And… woahman, it’s like shining a flashlight into a cave that you knew was going to be kinda gross, but you weren’t really prepared to a million spiders suddenly illuminated. The underbelly of LW, posts and comments you don’t even see anymore because we installed karma filters on the frontpage.
There’s a webcomic called Goblins, where one goblin decided to become a paladin, and gains the ability to Detect Evil. And suddenly is confronted with all the evil lurking about, in the shadows of people’s hearts, literal shadows, and sometimes in broad daylight. And he’s describing this to a fellow goblin, and they’re like “Holy hell, how can you live like that!? Why would you choose to _force_ yourself to see the evil around you?”
And Goblin A nods gravely and says “so that you don’t have to.”
You realise that I read every comment in the rss feed right?