videogames is one word

honestly my favorite picture of a person. the pose? iconic. the room? also iconic. the fonts? also also iconic. the icons? you’ll never guess what i think about them. a while back i dug into who invented the original doom speedrunning leaderboards and i found a picture of that person making a similar pose and the first thing i thought of was susan kare. 10/10 picture

even if it's not against the rules (for whatever reason and with whatever reasoning; the end effects are the same) we can still build a culture on here that rejects suicide baiting because it hurts people we don't want to hurt.

we just have to work at it.

it won't be easy. people don't like being told to change their behavior, a lot of the time. people don't like feeling like they've been told to shut up, even if it's something they feel when told "what you said has hurt me, even if you didn't mean to." there will be pushback, possibly loud pushback.

the alternative is this: you will keep hearing from people who feel suicide baiting (especially without making use of the site's safety features) is an appropriate rhetorical tactic, loudly or otherwise, and unless they are brave enough to speak up and endure the backlash, the people it hurts will just go quiet, as a few of them have already, and however many more didn't say anything about it.

you won't hear them anymore, because they won't be here, because it hurts them to use this website, and their voices won't be part of the discussion. their contribution to the culture on here will vanish, along with the diversity that comes of having more, and more sorts, of people on here.

i think that makes cohost a worse place to be.