I’ve been thinking a bit about the postal system and wondering how/why people haven’t rebelled against such a burden if it’s so bad that the USPS has one out of five stars out of six thousand reviews even though it’s a public service.
You mean the USPS that can send a letter to anyone in the US, no matter how remote, for less than $1.
The USPS that has had its funding messed with for decades by Republicans trying to make private shipping the only option?
The USPS that is guaranteed by the Constitution to exist and provide services?
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Yeah, let’s ditch this amazing service that provides stable union jobs everywhere in the US, and just let private industry take over, that works so well every other time we’ve done it.
You say that like I said anything about Republicans or privatization, if I may point out, that such low reviews from so many people come from only one demographic, and/or that something so basic or “stable” should be as forgiven as it is for stereotypical reports of internal mail theft, delivery error, heavy-handed monopolizing, and/or “going postal”.
The postal service ranks up there with public libraries, it’s a great service that needs to be preserved. Are you going to have individual points of failure at times? Yeah, my own postal person kinda sucks, but as long as it’s a system that relies on humans to perform it, that’s going to happen, but on the whole it’s a great service for what it provides on a daily basis.
Well, one might say the reviews constitute one point, a quirk like that isn’t born in a vacuum. Many of the “human errors”, if we may call them that, seem preventable if we include things like theft and the actual workplace. There are also so many tiny but impactful legal caveats (what actually constitutes mail fraud comes to mind) that it feels overpowering. If it were a private business, all this would be decried as an example of “monopoly syndrome”, heck Amazon (who I don’t respect any more) already has this criticism towards it.
You just simply send a random untrusted link. And we are currently VERY harsh on random links send here. If its youtube yeah of course we know its a video. A link to google yeah its a google. But a random link we as an admin dont want to check whats in there and we will just remove it, if we cant determine otherwise it. ( the link is just a java maven repository )
If its a common known website ( like youtube, instagram, imgur… ) then its all good not to say anything but if you do a neiche or a unknown link to a platform only few people know, it should be clarified where and what it leads to. In your case a forum post about a discussion about you and someone else.
I’ve been thinking a bit about the postal system and wondering how/why people haven’t rebelled against such a burden if it’s so bad that the USPS has one out of five stars out of six thousand reviews even though it’s a public service.
You mean the USPS that can send a letter to anyone in the US, no matter how remote, for less than $1.
The USPS that has had its funding messed with for decades by Republicans trying to make private shipping the only option?
The USPS that is guaranteed by the Constitution to exist and provide services?
…
Yeah, let’s ditch this amazing service that provides stable union jobs everywhere in the US, and just let private industry take over, that works so well every other time we’ve done it.
You say that like I said anything about Republicans or privatization, if I may point out, that such low reviews from so many people come from only one demographic, and/or that something so basic or “stable” should be as forgiven as it is for stereotypical reports of internal mail theft, delivery error, heavy-handed monopolizing, and/or “going postal”.
The postal service ranks up there with public libraries, it’s a great service that needs to be preserved. Are you going to have individual points of failure at times? Yeah, my own postal person kinda sucks, but as long as it’s a system that relies on humans to perform it, that’s going to happen, but on the whole it’s a great service for what it provides on a daily basis.
Well, one might say the reviews constitute one point, a quirk like that isn’t born in a vacuum. Many of the “human errors”, if we may call them that, seem preventable if we include things like theft and the actual workplace. There are also so many tiny but impactful legal caveats (what actually constitutes mail fraud comes to mind) that it feels overpowering. If it were a private business, all this would be decried as an example of “monopoly syndrome”, heck Amazon (who I don’t respect any more) already has this criticism towards it.
Please describe your links, why and what you linked. Next time it will be blacklisted without warning if not done.
On a community level or a site level? I’m confused, this is the first time I’ve seen anyone told that (it’s always relevant if wondering).
You just simply send a random untrusted link. And we are currently VERY harsh on random links send here. If its youtube yeah of course we know its a video. A link to google yeah its a google. But a random link we as an admin dont want to check whats in there and we will just remove it, if we cant determine otherwise it. ( the link is just a java maven repository )
Do you have a list of automatic trusted sites?
If its a common known website ( like youtube, instagram, imgur… ) then its all good not to say anything but if you do a neiche or a unknown link to a platform only few people know, it should be clarified where and what it leads to. In your case a forum post about a discussion about you and someone else.
Does the commonality factor exclude being able to link to scattered parts of the fediverse (which is not too common yet)?
No, because there are BAD fediverse parts and if you dont warn before it or its a weird url, then describe it.