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14 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 12 Jan \ parent \ on: please help me narrow down the crossposting possibilities meta

I want people and robots reading the site. I want them to be kind and considerate. Does that clear this up?

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @adlai OP 12 Jan
... want them to be kind and considerate. Does that clear this up?

honestly, only for me thinking about my own personal use of the site.

once I begin imagining even something as "common good" as a script for archiving "best of" posts and comments, I run up against the following problem: all the socioeconomic machinery that you and your community are innovating is irrelevant, from the perspective of a client without even the occasional temptation to comment anonymously.

right now, I'm guessing that robots either ignore the site completely, or crawl it without much consideration for anything beyond HTTP errors and IP bans, which is a sad state of affairs. it should be possible to reach a better compromise.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 12 Jan
from the perspective of a client without even the occasional temptation to comment anonymously

The perspective of anyone is out of our control.

Robots may be inconsiderate, and that is sad, but being permissive to who we think are humans will let some robots in and being restrictive to who we think are robots will keep some humans out.

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