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Oh, stop.

I'm talking about social proof as in "You are an student of the city university, so you get an account at the library", "Julie from the book reading group wanted an account at our Bookwyrm server, so I made an account for her" or even "Unnamed customer who signed up for Cingular Wireless and was given an authorization code to access Level 2 support directly".




This is being naive about the kinds of gatekeeping and social proof occurring today. I fully believe you didn't intend to mention social proof to be racist, but with people like Zuck and Elon removing DEI, being racist is social proof you belong in their elite club.


> This is being naive about the kinds of gatekeeping and social proof occurring today

You are taking one thing I said (service providers will require some form of payment or social proof to give credentials to people who want to access the service), assumed the worst possible interpretation (people will only implement the worst possible forms of social proofing), and to top it off you added something else (gatekeeping) entirely on your own.

I can not dictate how you interpret my comment, but maybe could you be a bit more charitable and assume positive intent when talking with people you never met?




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