Diogenes could have been a legend on 4chan.
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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.
The following things are not grounds for murder:
- Personal appearance ("You're fat", "You're ugly")
- Posts with little-to-no context
- Posts based on a grammar/spelling error
- Dick jokes, "Yo mama", "No, you" type responses and other low effort insults
- "Your values are bad" without any logcal or factual ways of showing that they are wrong ("I believe in capitalism" - "Well, then you must be evil" or "Fuck you you ignorant asshole")
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- Be civil and remember the human. No name calling or insults. Swearing in general is fine, but not to insult someone else.
- Discussion is encouraged but arguments are not. Don’t be aggressive and don’t argue for arguments sake.
- No bigotry of any kind.
- Censor the person info of anyone not in the public eye.
- If you break the rules you’ll get one warning before you’re banned.
- Enjoy the community in the light hearted way it’s intended.
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Diogenes would be the patron saint of internet memage if he was alive today.
Those words would murder harder with accessibility.
Diogenes would have been quickly banned on social media for trolling, incivility, & "arguing for arguments sake".
Classical Cynicism was all about pursuing clarity & meaning in life indifferent to its vicissitudes & free from pretenses & illusions. They held that false judgements of value caused arrogance, which caused dissatisfaction from unnatural, irrational desires[^false-value]. They argued for discovering clarity through ascetic practices free from unnatural desires through practices of shamelessness or impudence that deface the nomos of society (the laws, customs, and social conventions that people take for granted). That included flouting social conventions openly & derisively in public.
[^false-value]: especially of conventional desires (wealth, power, glory, recognition, conformity, worldly possessions)
Your suggestion would be more useful if it had more direct information on how the poster could add alt text to their post or image themselves, rather than a link to some generic w3 page about accessibility.
There are a multitude of remedies, so I don't specify. All that matters is the result: web accessibility. Doesn't matter how text alternative is provided whether by
- in post submission/edit forms, reducing image to the non-text portion, describe it in field Alt Text, provide proper text in the field Body
- adequately filling field Alt Text
- setting the field URL to an accessible equivalent
- providing an accessible description in the field Title or Body
- beginning the field Body with a link (so it's directly adjacent to image) to an accessible equivalent
or any other possibility as long as it achieves accessibility.
In general, it depends on the situation. Screenshot of social media text content: link to the source or its archival snapshot. Image of pure text: don't post that, post text instead.
Margaret Killjoy did a two part episode of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff about Diogenes: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-96003360/episode/part-one-diogenes-the-greek-philosopher-311381754/