Comments | siderea: [gender, psych] A brief note on the Kathy Sierra incident

siderea

[gender, psych] A brief note on the Kathy Sierra incident

Apr 04, 2007 22:16

I subscribe to Creating Passionate Users via RSS, so I've been following the story from her initial post ( Read more... )

gender, psych

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redaxe April 5 2007, 02:52:12 UTC

Heh. GMTA. Here I was tracking the Wiki link and you posted first :-)

redaxe April 5 2007, 02:51:37 UTC

Which is why one crucial part of the answer is to delete (or here on LJ, screen) such comments as soon as they are made. Or better yet make it such that they can't be posted before your audience in the first place.

I'm a great fan of the technique pioneered by Teresa Nielsen Hayden over at Making Light, disemvowelling posts that are abusive or trollish. It has the advantage that there's no whinging "you delete any posts that disagree with you" while making such posts readable, but with work. The casual skim doesn't take in the content, nor do search engines. Unfortunately, I don't believe there's any easy way to handle this on LJ (the plug-ins that do this easily are designed for WordPress and other blogging tools).

I do understand deleting and, better, screening comments as moderation methods, as well. There's no good reason to allow anyone to abuse you on your own turf.

alierak April 5 2007, 06:03:57 UTC

Yeah, I doubt LJ would ever provide a general means of modifying other people's words, so disemvowelling would have to be a specific server-side feature. Maybe there's something a journal owner could do with custom styles, but if so it might be considered a bug.

cvirtue April 5 2007, 03:35:03 UTC

Useful essay. Thank you.

cabell April 5 2007, 03:50:38 UTC

I've been wanting to write about this for awhile now; I think you did a better job. Excellent entry.

sariputra April 5 2007, 03:50:49 UTC

They do it to women because they have lit upon "women" as a target class for their ego defenses.

Whatever happened to men hating each other for that.

siderea April 5 2007, 04:24:07 UTC

Oh, I can't imagine that isn't happening, too. Presumably, however, since the point of the exercise is to identify an Other, one has to find some way to constrain "men" to be "men not like me", hence racial or national groupings.

sariputra April 5 2007, 05:35:24 UTC

I really have issues with dualistic psychological models, not because they are generally true, but because I really don't know if I think of any one group as other. Everything I dislike has some root in 'myself'--and I tend to be much more aggressive with people like me than others not like me.

I wonder if that means something.