online community

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Your Community Door

What are the real world consequences to signing up for a Twitter or Facebook account through Tor and spewing hate toward other human beings? Facebook reviewed the comment I reported and found it doesn’t violate their Community Standards. – Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) October 15, 2014 As far as I can

By Jeff Atwood ·
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blogging

I Stopped Reading Your Blog Years Ago

Emrah Diril recently asked me this via email: Steve Yegge mentioned in the comments of his last post that he gets quite a bit of hate directed his way. Fake51: you underestimate the ability of people to get mad. Some people start mad and just take it out on you.

By Jeff Atwood ·
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programming languages

See You at EclipseCon!

I have the very great honor of speaking at this year’s EclipseCon with one of my heroes, Clay Shirky. The theme of this year’s EclipseCon is collaboration – so all the talks are presented by two speakers. Our talk, The Social Mind: Designing Like Groups Matter, will alternate between

By Jeff Atwood ·
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