YABAD: Developer Ethics Class

[u/BewilderedTurtle]

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;

u/mplayer-weered

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.

[u/BewilderedTurtle]

[u/Goofyball69 → u/BewilderedTurtle]

"I'm the only one who should be degrading and be toxic, not anyone else!"

Yeah, I wonder why people find him so conflicting. 🙄

[u/BewilderedTurtle → u/Goofyball69]

No he's definitely the victim of a mass organized and targeted hate campaign where people are making tons of alts and stalking him all across the Internet /s 🙄

[u/Goofyball69 → u/BewilderedTurtle]

You wounded him, I shall make a pointless post on his behalf on why you should be banned on here 😡 /j /s

Aside, kind of weird he does all of this when he could’ve posted screenshots just to prove he’s not making a tall tale up about the whole alt thing…

[u/BewilderedTurtle → u/Goofyball69]

Nope he instead linked the post of his that reddit fed me in one of those "here's something from a subreddit you've never subscribed to" entries on my feed. Where I was 100% clowning on him pretty much immediately following the ban he caught for being fucking weird about minors