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tnielsenhayden
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Life: I can has one. Editor, moderator, fan
Jan 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Those communities have to accrete. Users both create and learn the local toxic discourse, constantly negotiating what’s acceptable or appreciated, and who they can trust. If a moderator spots that process beginning, and breaks it up, odds are it’ll go away and not come back. Trump has a knack for starting conversations that draw others in, and he doesn’t share the mike, so deplatforming him was effective. But that’s not always going to work. You may have to banish more than one conversation driver, possibly while waiting for them to become visible.
Oct 5, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Trauma goes bumping down the generations. It took me a long time to recognize that a set of shockwaves still bouncing back and forth in one branch of my family were echoes of a serious case of PTSD from WWI. Things that helped: access to birth control and abortion. There were so many stress-prone families formed around an accidental pregnancy, or families where one kid had a different father, and was made to feel it.
Jul 23, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
These are the same people who mix the handful of exposition you give them with the story you’re telling, transform it into a detailed real-time color 3D movie in their heads, and credit the whole thing to you. If they take a liking to a character, they can spin an entire human personality out of four facts and a couple of reaction shots, and experience that thing they create as a person that they know.
Jul 3, 2018 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
One of the hardest things to understand about graft, corruption, and self-dealing is how extraordinarily wasteful they can be.

Grifters don’t care how much value they destroy, as long as they make money on the deal. For example: no-bid contracts for disaster relief supplies that never get delivered. Result: no help or repairs now; no way to minimize further damage. Real cost: hugely more than the price of those missing supplies.
Dec 15, 2017 • 29 tweets • 4 min read
Everyone didn’t know. Some people had observed some behavior of Breen’s they thought was sketchy, and said so. Some thought Breen was sketchy because he was a long-haired weirdo a few years early. ... Some collected third-hand stories and decided that Fandom Had To Take Action Now!!! Some suggested that anyone who had enough info to act on should go to the police, instead of publishing “secret” fanzines.