So, okay. This needs to be said and understood:
KiwiFarms, Encyclopedia Dramatica, and 4chan are NOT reliable sources.
They're not.
Their entire reason for being is to manufacture reasons to ostracize people. They are, by any definition, hate machines.
You know the saying "trust but verify"? I am telling you: you can't trust these sources.
If you're going to attack and harass someone, find a better source than KiwiFarms, Encyclopedia Dramatica, and 4chan. Please.
Talking about abusive/hateful elements of community (better safe than sorry to use a CW here)
@noelle Also Lolcow....
Im defintely feeling like we have more than enough troll/harassing/doxxing encouraged sites out there.
Even if those sites were legitimately posting info on someone actually DANGEROUS to the community, no way you can pull that out of all the muck normally spewed there.
Talking about abusive/hateful elements of community (better safe than sorry to use a CW here)
@Catwoman69y2k @noelle Yeah, there's no way to sift through the edited bullshit and lies and *pictures of an innocent person's ~~child~~* that they've been archiving for totally legit, not-harassment purposes.
The danger to the community is letting KFers in.
@SyrusRayne @noelle lets say I am wanting to join Mastodon, under my more personal accounts (in this case, it would be this name here). Well... if someone figured out my SW identity and tied it to this one, than people may start concluding that Im trying to evade a ban (because many Mastodon instances restrict explicit sex related content due to how they federate with other instances). People could assume my consideration is actually ban evading.
