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Jon Brodsky

@jonsurfs

CEO of YouNow. Writer, doodler, mediocre athlete.

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linkhttp://www.younow.com calendar_today06-11-2007 20:10:06

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After a rough competition today, my kid asked me why we have competitions in the first place and why everyone doesn't focus on practice instead.

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One of our users is in downtown Kyiv and broadcasting; you can hear the shelling in the background: younow.com/linushennemann

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Being thoughtful is hard. It's so easy to react to a problem by doing more of the same old stuff rather than being brave and trying something new.

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At younow, we work hard to make sure people feel safe. Like everywhere on the internet, we have some bad actors. Today, we made it a lot harder for those people to bully our users off-platform. Read more about it here: younowmerch.com/post/update-re….

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We took a heavy-handed approach to eliminating off-platform bullying on Friday, and a lot of our users asked for something gentler. The thing is, we didn't jump to the heavy-handed way -- we spent years trying to find a gentle way before deciding on this path.

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Since we implemented our latest (and probably not last) anti-bullying measures, I've had a lot of user complaints saying that we could have done things differently. What I haven't seen? The many daily complaints that used to filter in about people being bullied off platform.