...but drawing attention to messages which we don't find acceptable or welcoming, and demonstrating that we don't, is one thing I can do.
I don't often do it, but that particular tweet hit a nerve. I'm trying to help to build a friendly community, and I think that calling out unkind behavior when I see it is an important part of that. My options for discouraging the original tweeter (and his friends) are limited...
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I think you need to consider scale here. In this case, you increased the audience of this particular tweet, which would have only been visible in a reply in a thread, by a factor of several hundred at least (the tweeter having only 35 followers)
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I’m guessing the person you quoted thinks that your approach to “building a friendly community” has been damaging and exclusionary, Jon, and they’re right, even if what they said wasn’t very nice.
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I think that given the parameters of this community there's no single approach which excludes nobody: we have probably both been detrimental to different subsets. But I've tried to lead by example, and I've tried to resolve disputes, and I've tried to be welcoming to new members.
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