>(remember when SlashDot was the HN? It’s now the place to go, if you want ASCII-art swastikas).
I do, and I had an old account there, back in the before times. But now it just looks like a less popular reddit comment section. What do you mean with the swastikas?
There's a certain...subculture...of /. troll that go into many of the comment threads, and post these giant ASCI art swastikas. They are usually accompanied by all kinds of racist pejoratives. I'm sure they get reported, but I have seem them stay up for weeks.
They probably aren't real Nazis; just bored teenagers, trying to get a rise.
You usually need to max out the comment filters to see them (rightly so).
But there's also plenty of good old-fashioned abuse trolls, there.
One of the reasons that I like this place, is because it highly discourages that kind of behavior.
If it starts happening here, I'm heading for the hills. I used to be a troll, but as I have gotten older, the shine has worn off that brand of behavior.
I do, and I had an old account there, back in the before times. But now it just looks like a less popular reddit comment section. What do you mean with the swastikas?