Barrington

@Barrington@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like you are saying making this change will help good parents be good parents be good parents while bad parents will still be bad parents. I agree.

  Your argument about not being responsible for the content your platform hosts is old. If a platform can’t moderate the content it hosts, don’t host it. Most people would even be happy with a reasonable attempt at moderation. I’m not one of those people, I don’t believe companies should profit from an unsafe product, which the prevents safe products from gaining traction as they are more expensive to run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you allow user generated content in your game, you should be responsible for it.

  As for changing the rating not achieving anything, you’re wrong again. I imagine there are a lot of adults with kids who are unaware of the chat elements of Roblox and how it exposed their children to sex offenders. Changing the rating would likely cause some people to pause for thought when seeing it. It would probably limit it’s visibility on some store front. Possibly be removed from others. And if nothing else, I imagine the news cycle around having its rating changed would reach a lot of people who wouldn’t usually be aware of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You earned some more dislikes⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who down voted your comment, allow me to explain both why I think you are wrong and why I wasn’t going to waste time replying.

  Firstly, the problem with not showing down votes is that the posts below would look the same

  10k 🔺 100k 🔻 10k 🔺 0🔻

  But we obviously know that 100k down votes is considerably worse than 0.

  And secondly, why I didn’t comment? You didn’t ask a question, you haven’t haven’t said why you think your version is better to drive the conversation forward. You just made a comment. I disagree with it so I down voted it. if someone agrees, they up vote. Over time the ratio will show what the general opinion is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say I am more a car person than a bike person.

  I’m not against bicycle infrastructure, but I am against bad bike infrastructure.

  I use to live in Cambridge in the UK and bike lanes were often an after thought meaning adapting the existing area to accommodate everyone regardless of if space was available. Unfortunately, it was usually seemed that it was done for the lowest price so the local council could tick a box to say that it was done even if it was not fit for purpose.

  The most common examples are where there is still parking or bus stops on the side of the street which blocks the bike lanes and forces cyclists onto the road again.

  Another is the inconsistency of bike lanes being on the footpath or on the road. The cheep option seems to be to take which ever is widest (the path or road) and squeeze in a bike path. If the road and path were actually resized, and resurfaced properly, there would often be enough place for everyone.