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Self Pollination
(mander.xyz)
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Sl*t? Are we censoring slut now? When did we become so afraid of language that we just started coming up with new swears?
Shazbot
we have had partial self censorship in media for decades now. no clue why people get so uptight when it happens on the internet.
Nah, fuck that. Censoring words by replacing characters with asterisks isn't accessible to non-sighted users who use tools like screen readers. If people don't want to see words on the internet they can block list them or choose what communities they engage with.
Again, the #1 reason I gave was corporate social media taking down uncensored posts. What’s even less accessible than a censored post? A post that doesn’t exist because it gets the user banned.
I appreciate your commitment to accessibility, but posting image macros without alt text (the norm for most meme communities) isn’t accessible to screen readers either. If you are going to get judgy at this post you have to have beef with 99% of meme culture that doesn’t ever provide image transcriptions either, asterisks or no.
Or you could let people have fun online. 🙄