6th June 2018, 04:50 AM
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Way of the Bern, like a lot of progressive spaces, gets a lot of attention from troll farms and disruptors from both sides. So whenever a user got too stroppy and was reported for various offenses against the rules, rather than banninate them as you'd normally expect they'd sic a couple of repurposed Reddit bots on them. The Turtle one is for trolls and dickholes and it requires that every post they make contain the phrase "I like turtles." You can't go back and edit either, it has to be there when the post is first published or it will never show up. For those who are actively nasty, misogynistic, abusive and the like they'd get the phrase "I need a hug." Amazingly enough, a huge percentage of trolls will abandon the site and give it up rather than be forced to include a nonsense phrase in their posts--it fair rustles their jimmies. Anyway, incredibly effective. WOTB has an incredibly low ban rate and anyone who really wants to engage with a Turtle/Hug poster can go right ahead but there's no chance of being baited into it not knowing you're facing a troll. They got labels! 
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This is fascinating. I love that someone thought of this, and that it works. Genius. |
[Capt. Picard]Make it so, Numbah One.[/Capt. Picard]
I like hugging turtles.
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