@MiriShuli @Pope I appreciate the effective illustration.
@Popehat @Pope and the effective response. Ken, I’ve read you for years and listen to the podcast, but honestly you seem totally blind to how this comes across. Yes, Mastodon is different. Has a different ethos. And you’ve just told all of us Jack Dorcy, of no content moderation, of selling Twitter to Elon, is where you’d rather be.
So? Stop whining and Go. We will survive.
@MiriShuli @Pope Feel free to take a whif of my colonization.
@Popehat @MiriShuli @Pope Look, I know you’re taking any negative feedback as “proof” but frankly you’re playing into her point more strongly than anyone else has played into yours. You don’t like criticism (fine) and you apparently get more of it here than there. You’ve already announced your departure so what are you still doing here? Forget whif [sic], this reeks of seeking drama.
@matt @MiriShuli @Pope A careful — or honest — reader would see that didn’t say I was not coming back, but that I didn’t post or monitor much.
But that’s the precise sort of smug but clueless scoldiness that’s part of the ethos here I find unpleasant. My role is to sit respectfully while insufferable bien-pensants instruct me? No thank you.
@Popehat @MiriShuli @Pope I was plenty careful. I never said your departure would be absolute. I’m also not scolding you for your choice—my response yesterday wished you well. And no, you need not sit, respectfully or otherwise. You identified a course of action: reducing time here. Instead you’ve apparently chosen to *increase* time posting here AND prove others’ assessment that you can’t handle criticism by lobbing idiotic colonialism insults.
@matt @MiriShuli @Pope But see, you give yourself away with “can’t handle criticism.” Your expectation is that faced with obnoxiousness — say, the sort of self-serious white person who routinely calls other white people white as an insult, or the accusation of “colonizing social media” — people will thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another. I’m laughing in your face instead. I am handling criticism - just not the way you feel entitled to be handled.
@Popehat @MiriShuli @Pope “Others’” in this context was the person you reposted above. I already said it’s fine that you don’t like the type of criticism you get here.
And yes, you’re handling that criticism the way you want. And I’m telling you that your method makes you look foolish (which has nothing to do with how *I* feel entitled to be handled, whatever you think that means) and suggesting you commit to the method you already mentioned.
@matt @MiriShuli @Pope Your disdain contents me.
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"A man's calibre is the inverse of that of his detractors. Therefore strive at all times to make utter tossrags disparage you."
