I wish Slack had a block feature. On a social Slack, someone lashed out me and started accusing me of horrible things. Admins did nothing after I complained and said my anger wasn’t in proportion to the situation. Fuck that.

The lasher out accused me of ableism, povertyism, and condoning human rights violations. It was so outrageous that even a bystander tried to intervene because lasher out was clearly acting out on a trigger and I had not done anything to deserve it.
I had this problem with the lasher out before, but this time they went too far.

So I have one less social platform to engage with. Good riddance. I’m not participating in a place that is not a safe space.

I thought Facebook would be the one I unplugged first.

Slack is not a social network though. This is like complaining that RabbitMQ doesn't have a "typing" feature so you keep talking over people when using it as a group chat

@lorentz This particular slack workspace was being used as a social network of sorts. So that’s why I call it a social slack and a social platform.

@ctnqhk Yeah, and my high school's media group tried using a RabbitMQ instance as a group chat once, but when it proved to be shit, we just went and used something else instead of pretending that any use case deserves the developer's attention just by virtue of existing.

Social spaces have an immense amount of inertia. No matter how bad the environment, it's very hard to get people to use something else unless they do it all at the same time because the utility of an environment is primarily defined by how many people you can reach through it.

This has happened to me here on Devrant recently. I don’t look for a safe space or a ban button. I just use my words to make sure the other chump looks for a safe space or a ban button. Because fuck the language police.

@stackodev Oh yeah, I also let this person have it.

@UnicornPoo Part of the issue is this person clearly had triggers, liked to lash out at others for it, and liked to tout a personal detail about themselves so they could claim some authority. Another part is the admins condoned my responses and did not do the same for the antagonist even though they also felt this person was off base. I’m not putting up with this double standard.

I was seeking support for a hard decision time in my life with my partner. My partner is a teacher and they’re stressed out because they don’t have the resources to do their job. At one point I wrote that the school has been serving more poor families over the years and more students with behavioral problems and disabilities. And the school makes weird decisions like not allowing some students to go to math class but allow them to go to my partner’s art class.

I was only describing the working conditions. The lasher out decided that I was saying that poor and disabled kids were problem and started railing into me because the word “serve” was “problematic” and education is a human right. This is the short version of it. Someone else pointed out that my comments aren’t saying that. And lasher started accusing me of ableism and povertyism and “didn’t think we should ignore it for the sake of conversation.” So my thread asking for support around big life decisions turned into her “calling me out” for perceived prejudice. So I called this person out because they’ve done this to me before and now it just went too far with attacking me for no reason and attacking me when I’m at a vulnerable time. I suspect folks here might think I’m hiding other parts of the convo. I’m not. That’s my truth. I’ve been wanting to cut back on the socials. Didn’t think that slack would be the first I cut.

It’s all for the best that I self exile from that slack. I’ve had other encounters with “nutters” there. Those were manageable. This last one was a doozy though.

Let this stand as my villain origin story lol jk 😂