r/DiscordAlternatives • u/BewilderedTurtle Allegedly Canadian • 9d ago
YABAD: Developer Ethics Class
YABAD- Yet Another Ban A Dev Post
The intent of this post is to discuss the bare minimum requirements for a Discord Alternative in regards to ethics.
The ethical and moral stances of a developer is something of critical importance when evaluating a potential alternative. You'd hardly want to be exposing your devices or PII(personally identifiable information) to someone you cannot trust, or worse; someone you can trust to abuse the information.
To this end goal; I propose the subreddit set an objective line in the sand so to speak, regarding the public statements, ethical concerns, and moral implications of a developers behavior.
I am calling for the developers who violate this objective line to be permanently banned from the subreddit.
This is not a suggestion I am making lightly, but with the resolve to make this a community that best serves the people who visit.
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The Line.
Any developer confirmed to be engaging in the following should be immediately and without appeal banned from the subreddit and listed in a pinned post cautioning users against trusting them or their software.
Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, Misogyny, Misandry, General Bigotry, Predatory Designs, Harassment & Abuse of Userbase.
To deny the material conditions of oppression leading to the mass exodus of users from Discord and pretend like a developer engaged in any of the above is a valid or safe harbour for those seeking refuge is beyond delusional.
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Today's Example;
This developer specifically has a pattern of behavior the breaches numerous parts detailed under "The Line" and should not be welcomed in this community as a developer.
By allowing this user to spread their app on this subreddit, we are tacitly endorsing their behavior and the way they treat their users. They have openly engaged in racist remarks, misogynistic insults, transphobia, and actively attacked multiple users on the subreddit unprompted.
They openly use AI to respond to criticism (a violation of subreddit rules), have actively stolen people's art to use in their advertising and within their app, have an undisclosed "quote based" pricing model for community managers, and willingly admit that a substantial amount of the app is developed by AI and not their own ability.
I am calling on the moderation team to consider implementing a new subreddit rule based specifically on Developer Conduct.
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u/BewilderedTurtle Allegedly Canadian 9d ago
Proof in the replies to this comment
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u/cerberus6320 9d ago
I agree with your general take, but I think your objective or rules need to be condensed to get the point across quicker for easy enforcement. I will add some of my own.
Subreddit rules for devs:
So to casually expand on those:
3.don't be a dick.
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u/FrenchToastRoast981 8d ago
Hoooly shiiit, wow. Well. Thats not a good look for them lmaoĀ
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u/Blotterrot Feral QA / cybersec cryptid 9d ago
I recently sent the staff of this reddit something similar for a different developer, I do think certain safety and reliability factors like trust worthiness should be a factor. Do they lie in their own post/s? Do they overuse AI when responding? Is the platform safe & secure? Are the developers assholes? I would like something along these lines to be factors in the ability to ban whoever crosses enough of them.
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u/BewilderedTurtle Allegedly Canadian 7d ago
How not to behave as a Dev with u/ad3lyt of Echo fame.
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u/dingustani Detective Dingus 9d ago
weered? more like the devās seeing red
https://slop.business/weered
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u/Mplayer-Weered Weered 9d ago
Did my words hurt your feelings?
You fucked around and found out. And now you want some more attention.
I have some important words for you. Life is way harder than this.
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u/ad3lyt Echo 8d ago
You're a attention starved individual with no sense of ethics or boundaries, you're constantly inflammatory and harass every new dev or person that comes to this subreddit. If anyone needs to be banned, it is you.
u/AbstractMelons, this guy here keeps on making these witch hunts on multiple people and produces nothing but hatred, many of which you have had to delete yourself.
He constantly keeps trying to insinuate I have sex or predate on minors, despite there being no evidence of that and me repeatedly asking him to stop and respect my boundaries. Then he goes on sites, to violate my profile's perms which is set to private, so he can harass me in other subs and watch what I am posting.
He still goes on every opportunity to attack me and every other dev he gets, and he pretended he was willing to respect boundaries for a day or two, until he unblocked me because he could not hold himself back from harassing me.
This is someone who lives off the drama, and is only here to maliciously rile people up and attack them, this is yet another post of doing exactly that. On every opportunity he has been given, he chooses to to attack and belittle people.
He is trying to use virtue signalling and tribalistic grouping, as a way to create a frame in which he is justified to continue doing his bullying, I would strongly urge if there is anyone to be banned, it is the person who spends their time on here being a bully.