One for the sidebar, in the spirit of incident-day-free counters[0], tracking how many days since the last time there was a dipshitted thing from the tescrealtors

Could do it with flap-counter or nixie-clock numbers for a bit of feel?

[0] - is this an insensitive idea? I know the counters tend to form part of safety culture and their reset indicates harm, but those clowns are exactly dangerous, so…

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    10 months ago

    It would have to be something specific but recurring, like tescreal guru accidentally-but-not-really advocates eugenics on main, or yudkowski running afoul of actual AI researchers on twitter and getting roundly mocked.

    But where’s the fun in canned sneering?

    Maybe we should have a weekly thread for meta discussion and sneers that are too low effort to be their own post?

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      10 months ago

      I was thinking something as simple as tag triggers or so, but a bundled low-fruit weekly is maybe also not the worst

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    Some stuff is what the regulars dredge up from LW months ago, which raises the philosophical question - if a lesswronger posts a sneer but no-one reads it, is it really a sneer?

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      It is only a sneer if the lesswrongers tell you to take it to r/sneerclub on reddit, else it is just sparkling…