🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@wmarshall Well I saw you call another individual a tranny in an attack as well. I dont know if they attacked you or not, because I am not an admin of their instance, so even if they did I couldnt act on it.

You are MORE than welcome to respectfully object to the way someone treats you. But if someone treats you poorly that does not give you the right to resort to prejudice slurrs. We dont do that here, we prefer the "be the bigger man" route. Explain why you find the behavior unacceptable if you wish, but do not engage in unacceptable behavior yourself.

Would it be acceptable if someone didnt like you for them to mock christianity and god and you in an insulting way? I would find that equally unacceptable if someone from QOTO behaved that way as well.

@mntmn My time is limited, but hopefully i will find a way to help. If nothing else than with a bit of money

@mntmn I will happily buy, test, and help improve, anything related to this project (I do a lot of open-source both software and EE).

@mntmn I dont know the background. Saw the keyboard post and as an EE myself wanted more info when i saw the footprints near the top

@mntmn Is this for sale? info?

@adrint
I find leftists are just as eager to lie to themselves as the right. Its more a problem with americans than it is to do with any one party IMO.

@pschwede

@pschwede Well yea so the issue then isnt the studies, or the published statistics, just the conclusions we sometimes draw from them. In that case I 100% agree.

I think a better example than the bon bon for me is black crime rates in america. They are legitimately higher than other races, the statistics are real and they dont lie in that regard. The issue is some people wrongly assume that means blacks are more violent (they use it to support their racism).. this is of course a wrong conclusion. There are many reasons for this number ranging from them being targeted more by police to them simply living in poverty and thus the cause is poverty not race.

I usually cite that as a pretty good example most people can easily agree with.

@angelobottone I'll have to ask the family and see what town we come from

@angelobottone Not sure of the specific town. I just know it is Abruzzio or however you'd say spell it. Their last name is Brozzetti if that helps.

@pschwede Well I agree that we should care about our biases and our assumptions.

What I'm saying is the problem with having that bias isnt a failure in statistics, only in our ability to interprit what those statistics mean. The latter is a very common problem. But its not a fault of the math itself which is solid.

@pschwede well there might not be your right. But thats why statiscians run the numbers and see rather than make the assumption in the first place. No matter what bias they have or what they may assume int he end the numbers will set the record straight. If there is bias it will demonstrate the bias is wrong.

But no we disagree, sort of, If by unkown you mean "have no data" then yea, anything we have no data for cant be predicted. If we have data we can, however, make predictions on it, even if what we know or assume to know about that data is false. Because statistics doesnt care about your assumptions.

@angelobottone My family is from the same region of Italy as you!

@drump
If two people on QOTO both attacked each other and resorted to slurs against an entire group in doing so, then both would be warned and if it continued they would be blocked. As a general rule our policy at QOTO is "be the bigger man". But I do agree that we issue warnings first, and only block if it continues.

I consider the message I just left as a warning. You will notice the user isnt blocked yet. I let him know the behavior wasnt acceptable and waiting to hear his response before I decide on what action to take. If, in the future, he is willing to abstain from slurs and personal attacks then he might be allowed to stay.

@GoddessGrace@goodchristian.website @themorgangoats @wmarshall

@mancavgeek As an Admin of #QOTO I'd like to speak on the record here.

As we make clear in out ToS we dont block other instances but we DO censor. We believe in free speech in the sense that you wont get blocked for simply holding an unpopular opinion. But anyone who attacks others, insults them, or acts aggressive towards others are, and have been banned. We do NOT tolerate racism.

As others have pointed out, none of our users are hateful or racist. On the few cases that happened it resulted in a ban.

I generally suggest people ban instances based on what they do or do not tolerate from their users, rather than some ideological response to some key words in a description.

If anyone in this thread actually knows of an example of any user on QOTO not living up to what I described please let me know, we will take care of them.

@union

@TheMadPirate Not always. Depends on a few factors like if the ban is mutual and if the person requires approval to be followed.

@rtwx Good to see virtually everyone on the thread pushed back.

@angelobottone Hi there!

@drump
Not easily. I test it by having accounts on servers throughout the fediverse and seeing if they can talk to this server. It can be done with bots if you want to automate it. But nothing public.

@angelobottone @Ricotta

@rtwx Please do so I can verify if its legit.