If you give people a big wall and free spray paint, of course they 'll fill it with dicks. Unlike real life, there is nobody to paint over them. Trolling is a natural part of the internet, its the price for having relative freedom, i dont have a problem with it. If that puts off people who don't have the capacity to tune it out, all the better.
That's not true of course. Most graffiti, murals etc are not of dicks. And if you have a community bulletin board that gets spray-painted with dicks, someone is going to possibly get fined or jailed.
> Unlike real life, there is nobody to paint over them.
In the real world having your tagging painted over is one of the saddest feelings. I wonder if there's a way to digitize that sensation but I think people are desensitized to things being deleted. It would have to be beyond that.
I've seen people respond similarly or analagously to having their posts or comments removed.
Which makes me cautious about invoking that particular remedy in any but particularly eggregious or blatent cases. If I think there's any reasonable option for remediation, I'll try to avoid it.
Sure, but if the big wall is a map, and you're trying to find something on that map, all the dicks make it so much harder to find it that giving up in despair is often the reaction.
It's hard to tune out a cubic mile of dicks when you're looking for a pearl.
Well, in that case the Internet "map"'s problem is less the dicks drawn here and there than its being covered on every square centimeter by ads. Oh wait, I think I see the part of the map I needed... oh, no, just another ad designed to make me think it was part of the map.
