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+title: If your websites full of assholes, its your fault - Anil Dash
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+This article is new to me but was published 13 years ago. However its message remains evergreen. Particularly in an era where social media silos are speed-running enshittification by letting assholes take over their sites.
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+The tech industry loves to reinvent the wheel and we often forget that we can adopt solutions developed in other industries. As Anil says, we can draw from learnings in cvil engineering, city planning and crowd control to help us manage websites.
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+> But, by simply learning from disciplines like urban planning, zoning regulations, crowd control, effective and humane policing, and the simple practices it takes to stage an effective public event, we can come up with a set of principles to prevent the overwhelming majority of the worst behaviors on the Internet. 
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+> Fix your communities. Stop allowing and excusing destructive and pointless conversations to be the fuel for your business. Advertisers, hold sites accountable if your advertising appears next to this hateful stuff. Take accountability for this medium so we can save it from the vilification that it still faces in our culture.