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@thecosmicawakening

I agree, tht has been my thinking.

Thought more importantly for me the value of QOTO comes from the fact that it is one of very few places on the internet where you can interact with respectful, fact based, people who can have discourse on difficult subjects without getting insulting or childish about it.

STEM as a theme is just a way to get there.

@zleap @design_RG

I have just given an order for our National Guard to start the process of withdrawing from Washington, D.C., now that everything is under perfect control. They will be going home, but can quickly return, if needed. Far fewer protesters showed up last night than anticipated! twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/st #Trump #Protesters #Washington

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Full-List of bots: joejoe.github.io/mastodon

Imagine claiming that you care about black lives while funding the destruction of black neighbourhoods and businesses. Or partaking in the looting of them.
Imagine claiming that you care about black lives by putting up a black square on social media.

@freemo

> I think most people only use a single personal email address.

Holly Molly. We are a Stem instance and people can't grasp the concept of a secondary email? I am 100% certain that anyone seriously interested in being here has no problem with that sense.

We are not asking for anything exotic, like a BitCoin wallet address or such oddity. Overruled, imo.

@thecosmicawakening @zleap

Dear black parents... 

Stop telling your kids they're gonna die cuz they're black and making them cry so you can make a video to put on social media for social justice warrior points.

That's emotional abuse.

Thank you.

** Clean Up proposal - Removing old, never active accounts **

For purpose of internal discussion and to gauge people's opinions, I am opening a discussion topic on this subject -- here, in Public.

I had very recently brought this up internally, in a Staff only area (essential for sensitive discussions, and common in all internet sites).

The image included in this post is a snapshot of my post there - - which looks much nicer than it could ever be here (until we get better, enhanced text format supported).

This idea was motivated by my belief this deserves attention, and by a very recent post by Paul Sutton -- asking what the meaning of 'active'users is on the server stats displayed at the front doors.

My post follows, in Text form. Look forward to your comments, suggestions and participation. Thank you.

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A pet peeve of mine.

I would have done it myself. Proposing here for discussion and possible action.

* that long term, never active accounts represent a Zero value added to instance.
* that such accounts can be dormant ones for video sharing people, as we had before
* that high number of users doesn’t really matter, this is my personal opinion.

I propose that :sparkler:

* inactive accounts, zero posts ever, older than a certain threshold, be eliminated.

A report from the admin panel could provide some stats on how many those would be

The threshold I would suggest – one year and older, inactive, Nuke applied.

Thank you.

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@Phaedrus

> I hate grammar errors and typos. Without delete and redraft my toots would show my poor English.

I am also very picky, and will edit if I can, as it bothers me. Sometimes I even get bothered by a wiggly Red line in a browser screen capture -- a typo I fixed before sending the toot, but preserved as I took the image, mid stream.

@freemo @zleap

@death @Ox @mikey @realcaseyrollins Because this is a wonderful town. The ideal place, almost.

But do not go to West LA if you can avoid it.

re: Dear black parents... 

@realcaseyrollins instilling fear into kids makes them much more likely to be victims. teach kids to be brave and to know wrong from right. that's the greatest thing you can do.

Dear black parents... 

Stop telling your kids they're gonna die cuz they're black and making them cry so you can make a video to put on social media for social justice warrior points.

That's emotional abuse.

Thank you.

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