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245 sats \ 3 replies \ @nout 6 Aug 2022 \ on: Is DarthCoin a troll? bitcoin

Here's my humble take,

  • From what I gather DarthCoin stacked up on BTC early on, which allowed him to retire and now in his free time he's providing great BTC tutorials and balancing that by being a dick to random users everywhere else.
  • Of course this includes sometimes being right and sometimes lying / making up facts and posing them as "the truth" (the trick is to say 80% truth to balance 20% lies).
  • For the users getting triggered by DarthCoin comments - this is a great spot to train your self-control in not getting triggered. Take a breath, count to 10. Get used to it, get used to people having a different opinion and not being "nice" about it. The beauty of Stacker News is that you have the power and responsibility to use your sats wisely to change the world.
  • Even though DarthCoin likely pushes away some number of new folks wanting to enter the community, I ultimately see DarthCoin as a benefit to Stacker News, because DarthCoin is providing useful test cases for the incentive model and is likely representative of the things that are to come with more usage.

WDYT?

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240 sats \ 0 replies \ @glix 6 Aug 2022

Nah. I see a lot of sugar coating here. Net positive and being welcoming and humble is always better than being even 20% dick. Over the top proclaiming things like "You don't know what you are talking about you n00b, THIS THE WAY. Accept it or get out" is far more damaging than saying, "You know what, yeah you do got a point, and we should explore it more, but here's why I have strong opinions on xyz". No one knows everything remember and can't know everything, so how about show some humility and be welcoming. I hope you take this is as positive criticism Darth.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @F OP 6 Aug 2022

Even though DarthCoin pushed away new users, you see him as a benefit? Man.. so far everything i've read of his is supremely toxic. He commented earlier saying Germans aren't real germans anymore because of America.

Is it possible to block someone on this site?

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120 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 6 Aug 2022

Yes, I do for the reasons mentioned above. I think some type of blocking feature would be useful if you just don't want to deal with the user. I'd say though that it should cost you some sats and then potentially if person gets blocked a lot it could cost them more sats to post too :)

Undesirable activities should cost more sats, but at the same time we need to incentivize censorship resistance... so this is a bit of balance that will be changing over time too :)

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