🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

I found the plot very hard to follow and uninteresting. No character development at all.

The point of the phrasing is not “this is a fair description of what was happening” but more “even if it was as bad as this, it’s still bullshit”. So you’re right, but that’s why I phrased it that way.

And that’s just if he decides to “refurbish” one!

If you supported $15/hr a decade ago, you now support $20/hr for the same amount with inflation.

For me, it means I’m back below where minimum wage should be. :sigh:

And conversely, I really wasn’t minimizing that, either. Because both - sitewide and subreddit bans for no good reason - are fucking dumb. lol. Sorry to have not explained myself well <3

I think for the admins, it’s less about the power and more about shit like the reasons Musk is ruining Twitter - money, political gain. But I know they’ve abused power, too^[1], so it’s probably a combo of all of that.

But yeah, either way, reddit is rotten, and it’s a bummer, because it used to be one of the best places on the internet for good discussion, information, all sorts of crap.

Well, here’s hoping Lemmy continues to grow. It truly does seem to remind me favorably of reddit’s early days, although I wish there was a bit more in-depth conversation on some topics. But I think I’m also a product of previous decades in that regard anyway. heh

Gonna sound like I’m minimizing your reply - please forgive me, I’m not: There’s a wild difference between subreddit bans and sitewide bans, though. Lots of shitty mods out there because all you have to do to become a mod is make a subreddit that takes off, so the fact that you do get some occasional great mods is the surprise. A sitewide ban for bullshit reasons is much stupider since the admins should be hiring people trained to admin the site properly.

That said… still sucks very much to get unjustified bans at any level. Especially with no true appeal system in place.

Every site will get things wrong… but it feels like reddit keeps going out of their way to make things shittier and shitter.

I’m afraid I must agree with you, much as I hate to. I suppose just like twitter was destroyed, reddit is all but destroyed as well. :|

Listen, kid, I’ve been on reddit since 2009. I hung out with the admins in IRC back in the day. I was a default mod for a while, and I’m the “father” of /r/nottheonion.

There’s plenty I don’t know about reddit and life in general, but on this topic, clearly I know a fuck ton more than you.

There was a time on reddit when self-promotion was against the rules. That rule was dropped something like a decade ago.

The simple fact is that - from at least the article’s telling - the subreddits wanted the content, and in that case, it is absolutely fine and encouraged for someone to submit.

There’s a guy making youtube reviews of restaurants in my local city’s subreddit. The content is popular - people like it. So we absolutely are happy to see him post. Is it self-promotion? Yes, technically. It’s also relevant to the subreddit and desired by the mods and members of the subreddit.

You’re like the people saying “dis a repost” when someone CROSS-posts. Note that reddit has a BUILT IN SYSTEM for cross-posting, but there are redditors who don’t know that.

So, little boy, you can take your condescension and /r/confidentlyincorrect along with /r/iamverysmart and fucking LEARN something, or go off and continue to be willfully ignorant.

Disclaimer: If the article’s reporting is incorrect and the subreddits considered it spam, well, that’s not what the article said, and I don’t otherwise have other knowledge of it, nor do I care enough to google for any other possible sources. But that’s the informatio you’re working off of as well, so there’s that.

PS: To add a light-hearted end: I’ll go to /r/dontyouknowwhoiam now :) (that name seems too long. Is that the right one/ Well, you probably know what I mean and I’m too lazy to look it up :P )

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I feel weird that I read this correctly. hehe

But now that you mention it, I wonder if they’ll launch during the rebuttal. :|

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Unless the article is absolutely lying, it mentioned the subreddits wanted the posts and couldn’t overcome the sitewide ban (i.e. manually approving the content). Your comment is a really huge stretch there.

Mine came from simply saying that a drone would probably take care of a Russian solder seen in a video on crutches heading toward the front lines in Ukraine. Literally just that. Not saying it with any joy or approval, just a statement of fact. Phrased pretty damn much like I said it in this comment here.

Like you just did with your comment and OP did with their posting: non paid ad posting

“All your base are belong to us” and the monologue about the Magic / More Magic toggle.

That’s a whole load of whataboutism bullshit.

if you’re wanting to wash it at home,

The AI should absolutely understand the implication that you want to wash your car at the car wash, not at home. The prompt is clear about that, even though it is implied.

“I want a hamburger. McDonald’s is three miles from me and Wendy’s is five miles. Which is the cheaper place to get a burger from when you consider the distance to each?” is not an exact analogy, but the point is that it should be ABSOLUTELY clear that you do not wish to make your own hamburger. Any response that discusses that as an option is ridiculout, unless maybe it’s one of those options-at-the-end thing LLMs love to do - but it has no part of the main answer at all.

You have to have the car there no matter what type of car wash it is.

If the car wash is some distance “away”, it means neither you nor the car is at it. Any attendant is not going to walk off-property to retreive your car, especially when most of them you drive up for service. Which is rather the point.

I’m not afraid to say that it took me a sec. My brain went “short distance. Walk or drive?” and skipped over the car wash bit at first. Then I laughed because I quickly realized the idiocy. :shrug:

You ain’t wrong, although it’s just hard to fight against the momentum. But I’ve found it better to try and answer what’s wrong rather than just RTFM^[1] as it seems to help a little. Sometimes. But not always. It’s human nature. heh

It’s not like it’s always wrong per se… like in this case one of the witnesses to an ICE shooting was killing in a crash and lots of the comments are about how it wasn’t an accident. But the article mentioned three other people in the car including the guy’s sister - and it was reported they took a highway exit too fast. Based on the time… I’d read “drunk” between the lines, though that wasn’t mentioned - but importantly: If it was suspicious, why didn’t any of the three survivors mention anything out of the ordinary?

But I agree that it would be suspicious… if we didn’t already have people who would be inclined to speak up not saying anything was out of the ordinary.

So I get the comments - except they should have RTFM.

But that’s just one example from today. It happens a lot, but most of the time people here seem to post decently thoughtful posts. And we have very few fascists. Sooooo, that’s nice. heh

That used to be the case, but the AI moderation is really going stupid. I posted elsewhere about what got me permabanned. It’s bullshit.

That said, you are still decently correct. A lot of people get legitimate bans. But reddit’s AI moderation has also gone off the deep end.

If it helps, I’m the “father” of /r/nottheonion, was a default mod, hung out with admins in IRC back in the day… not that it makes me super awesome, but I’m also not totally a ‘random’ guy. heh