seebs

So Trump ran on basically the same platform as Hitler ("I listen to you! I will fix things and make us great! Other people are bad and a threat to us!") and you think this is better?

Part of what we usually want from our politicians is to filter what people want a little bit and remove some of the evil and stupid. I know, then we don't get exactly what we want. But if you ask exactly what people want, about 90% of it ends up being "people not like me to suffer more", and if you run everything based on that, all you get is everyone suffering more.

I too often don't see why a thing would not be simple and straightforward, until I've done it a few times.

I wonder if the new people will do anything about the "site is actively hostile to photosensitive people" thing. I used to use tumblr, and we reported, pretty much every year or so, the thing where login pages or "not found" pages always had full-page flashing or fast-moving animated GIFs, because that was a horrible source of seizure-inducing experiences, migraines, etcetera.

I always assumed it was a considered and intentional choice by the tumblr staff to actively drive those people away.

I also note: I didn't go there for porn, but I left over the porn ban, and will not even consider returning while the porn ban remains. I had >40k posts, I met the kid we ended up adopting there, and so on. I had a lot of engagement with the site, but while porn wasn't emotionally important to me, the side-effects of the porn ban made the site completely useless.