17. Sorry, I'm Going to Be The Liability

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I'm not writing anything snarky or goofy about online toxicity. It's bad, and whether or not you agree with the viewpoints of people who are expressing their opinions, no one deserves to receive constant abuse, death threats, and rape threats. Today, we talk about what can be done and what's being done to combat online toxicity. -John Gabriel's Greater Internet _______ Theory (we're a clean show I guess?) -YikYak is garbage -@nero banned from Twitter forever -xkcd on free speech as a defense (read the alt text) -Periscope's solution to online harrassment -Racism in Hearthstone -The Elo rating system -Brawlhalla -Dota2 player realizes he's being a dick (report at eleven!) -Overwatch more popular than League of Legends in Korea -League of Legends is enormous -Jeff Lin of Riot discusses how they tested eliminating toxicity -Another Jeff Lin talk -Yet another Jeff Lin talk -More on Jeff's experiments at Riot -A good overview on Riot's attempts to curb harrassment -Ruining it for the rest of us -Dark patterns as a good thing -Riot using online metrics to deal with toxic, in-house employees -Overwatch is becoming famous for its low levels of toxicity -Online altruism -Overwatch gets one method of avoiding online abusers removed because it was being abused -Overwatch play-by-sound -Radiolab's Trust Engineers -Everything is a Remix -Remakes that are better than the original