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dividuumyesterday at 6:09 PM1 replyview on HN

> [..] it incentivises people to behave as unpleasantly as possible — because it's often the only way to trigger the exception [..]

Thus creating an asshole filter: https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1209794.html


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pixl97yesterday at 6:17 PM

FTA

>An asshole filter happens when you publicly promulgate a straitened contact boundary and then don't enforce it; or worse, reward the people who transgress it.

A lot of people do this unwittingly, so it's a good article to read.

The converse is to this is many companies demand it. If you're not an asshole, you're simply going to get ignored.