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  • Zacryon@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzDear Faith II
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    6 hours ago

    Not using colors in scientific writing is discarding a valuable information channel and therefore inefficient. When you are already limited in the allowed word count, this can speed up conveying information and reduce cognitive strain on readers (and possibly yourself). So it’s a win-win.

    This should not end in chaos though, where colours are more confusing than helpful.

    The times when we had to print out each and every single page on a crappy black/white office printer are luckily becoming more and more a thing of the past. So even this is no longer a good reason to not use colours.





  • Every system can and will get exploited. I am not sure how another economic system will fix this. Assholes will be assholes and if we don’t stop them from getting into positions of power this will continue.

    Not to say that capitalism isn’t a bucket full of shit. But I would argue setting the incentives right, can mitigate damage. The issue is getting this done politically. Which brings us back to assholes (+capitalism) again.






  • if anything the defamation was coming from emopunker, declaring people upvoting the thread […] as ‘the same person’

    Fair point.

    I am on the fence about the ‘snark comm’ ordeal. I think such communities are – to some degree – meaningful for a critical discourse. Imo, one should be allowed to point out and criticise users, communities, whole instances.

    Then again, this should not make someone a target for harassment.

    From my pov, it’s a question of balancing interests here: civilised criticism is important and should be allowed. Especially in such public spaces. Denying this due to a hazard of making them a target for people who see this as a ‘call to action’ would suffocate such discussions completely. So I’d address the harassers and sanction them, instead of people who merely point things out they find suspicious, as in this case.

    So unless Emopunker directly incited the harassment or did it themselves, I’d lean towards: “yeah, somewhat uncool to throw such accusations in the room without further proof, but that doesn’t make them the culprit”.


  • Basing this on a temporal chain of events alone is weak. I’ll give you, that there might be a connection: names listed -> harassment started.

    That does not mean that Emopunker is responsible though. Could have been another user. Could have been you for all I know. Could also have happened for other reasons. And, there is still the possibility that it might have no connection to this at all.

    You’ll need to provide some stronger evidence, otherwise I’ll take this as baseless accusations and, possibly, a defamation attempt.

    Feel free to deliver, especially since you seem to be observing this. I’d like to know whether an admin on the instance I am using is harassing people.