I've been thinking a lot about social norms for online discourse....
I've also started writing up some thoughts. I'm trying multiple shorter blog posts that will (hopefully....) combine into something substantive.
Here's the first, a gentle warm up....
All thoughts welcome!
https://write.as/ulrikehahn/online-social-media-toxicity-and-scale
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I’d like to conduct some polls on social norms here…..First up: blocking
Do you think it’s ok to block people
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Does the acceptability of blocking depend on who is doing the blocking?
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@UlrikeHahn I'm interested to hear why and how people think elected representatives should behave differently, in case it is that standing for election means you sign up to accept a certain level of abuse!
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@jbenjamint I added that because I've encountered people complaining about MPs blocking people in the past.
Note that even if a person just thinks the threshold for when blocking is appropriate is different (e.g., 'only in case of abuse' for MP, say, but 'fine whenever' for anyone else) the option to tick would be 'are different'
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@UlrikeHahn I think it's a great question to ask. I'm genuinely not sure whether political reps are entitled to block preemptively or whether they instead "owe constituents an ear". Being a fence-sitter, I voted option a.
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