Posts by Bart Janssen
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Her two-year-old’s life has been packed full of building, plumbing, electrical work.
But she and Bob are growing up with a father who makes things. Real things, things they can touch and break and then watch him repair. It's a kind of magic.
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Hard News: Friday Music: I'm Over The Edge, in reply to bob daktari,
too much to ask for people to greet you with a smile
It does seem like security could do with going to some courses on hospitality. I bet the people actually hosting would be pissed off to know their efforts are ruined by security.
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For those in Auckland there is a free foodie event tomorrow (Sat 10 Aug) on at shed 10 on Queen's wharf.
It's part of Restaurant month and unlike the rest of the events it isn't exhorbitant.
I was hoping to get there but it seems unlikely now :(.
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Up Front: Everyone is Wrong. And Right. Whatever., in reply to Danielle,
And yet somehow, despite the sexist culture in which we are steeped, most of us manage not to send rape threats to feminists.
This is the bit that completely throws me. I honestly can't get my head around the idea that there are folks who don't think their day is complete without threatening someone with violent assault. I guess it's yet more proof that my world is not "average" ... something for which I am grateful.
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Up Front: Everyone is Wrong. And Right. Whatever., in reply to Kumara Republic,
attacking the symptom
While it is always nice to attack the cause and cure it, it's worth remembering that medicine has succeeded for a long time in improving peoples lives and extending and saving lives by addressing symptoms first. Usually because that's all they could do at the time.
I tend to think dealing with trolls and spammers etc is along the same lines. You deal with the cause if you can, but you also deal with the symptom because you can. And sometimes that's enough to make everyone's life better.
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Up Front: Everyone is Wrong. And Right. Whatever., in reply to Emma Hart,
I’m also adamant that the bar for action should be high
Yes but some of the comments were so far above the bar The Hubble 'scope would have trouble imaging them. What caused the service desk to fail to identify them as bad? Sadly my guess is that the corporate culture of Twitter is ... um ... lacking.
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Hard News: It's worse than you think, in reply to Gary Young,
scientifically illiterate frothing at the mouth over the suggestion that we might consider using water-efficient shower heads in new buildings
Light bulbs we agree on - but the one thing NZ does not have a shortage of is water. Unless of course you are trying to farm a million cows on our one drought prone plain.
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Up Front: Everyone is Wrong. And Right. Whatever., in reply to Emma Hart,
Twitter said it didn’t breach their standards. That’s not a staffing problem, it’s an attitude problem.
Yup. Agreed. I'm always amazed when totally gross obvious abuse is treated as part of a grey continium. I get that there are cases where it really is difficult to know whether someone meant to do as much harm as they did. But there are also cases where it is just bloody obvious that someone should not be allowed a voice.
The problem I suspect is that the person making the call is some junior on a service desk and they are terrified of doing anything, so the easy response is to do nothing. That is a consequence of culture in the organistaion of course. Had Twitter had an internal culture that defined really clearly "unacceptable" then the person on the service desk would have had no problem hitting the account terminated button.
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Up Front: Everyone is Wrong. And Right. Whatever., in reply to Deborah,
Then perhaps it’s not a viable business.
I would have thought so, but unprofitable businesses can be sold for stupid amounts of money.
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As for the protest. Um I'm always uncomfortable about protests. Most of the protests I see grossly simplify issues. It's hard to chant a complex issue and children can't hold signs with too much text.
As you put it, to protest about being harrased off the internet by not being on the internet seems bizarre.