Tag: social network
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Anxious Masculinity Under Threat: Google+ and Diversity, part 6
Google+’s naming policy isn’t failing because it’s poorly implemented, or because Google’s enforcement team is stupid. It’s failing because what they’re trying to do is (1) impossible, and (2) antisocial. — Bob Blakley, Google+ Can Be a Social Network Or The Name Police — Not Both, Gartner Blog Network I wonder what folks at Google…
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Bullies and moderation in online discussions
A kerfuffle that recently went on in one of the online communities I hang out in is a nice illustration of some of the complex interaction between moderator privilege in discussion forums, power vectors and bullying. Briefly, a poster engaged in a bunch of techniques such as using loaded and admittedly-pejorative terms in a theoretically-neutral…