The central feature of their business IS having drivers WAITING when a ride is requested.
So yes - it would be fair if they included some “waiting time” for each ride (maybe up to 15 minutes of actual waiting time).
These apps ONLY have value if there are drivers WAITING when a ride is requested, so drivers should be paid for that.
Okay…
Give me the math of how this new wage would help you “make a killing”.
Keep in mind that this wage merely sets a floor for the specific-minutes when you have a fare.
If you wait 10 minutes for a fare… give a 20-minute ride to some suburban house… and then drive 20 minutes back to the city…
your pay would be $10.83 (with this new deal).
…that’s very different from $32.50 per hour.
Does an airline baggage-handler only get paid for the “specific minutes” when he is lifting luggage?
Does a cashier only get paid for “specific minutes” when there are customers in her line?
The original goal of this lawsuit was to classify drivers as employees under state law…
And that goal was ignored completely.
It’s not as much as it seems…
The wage is only “for time spent traveling to pick up riders, and transporting them to their destination”.
No pay for driving back to the pickup area.
No pay for waiting when there are no fares.
It’s a per-minute wage, and only for certain minutes.
“OP made it opt-in”
1 - It’s not opt-in “By User” though. It’s opt-in “By Community”…
So if one person turns it on, 1000’s of other people see it.
OP keeps saying “you can just toggle it off”… but I really can’t… when anyone can toggle it back on.
2 - Future options for toggling are not much better (bottom of the repo, To-Do section):
“if a moderator adds the haiku-bot, non-mod users cannot remove it”
“only allow moderators to subscribe/unsubscribe”
…so the toggle option wouldn’t apply to 99% of people anyway.
“a few users were waiting for this (-OP)”
Who was waiting for it? The top level replies in this thread are:
I think your bot rules are pretty solid though.
Overall, I just feel like… Lemmy is a fresh space…
a chance to make a new culture…
maybe it’s best to leave that old bloated carcass behind.
1 - Yes - some bots are helpful, some (most) are annoying:
a Haiku bot falls into your “triggered by accident” category (any post that is 17 syllables).
a Haiku bot also does not add any new contextual information (it just duplicates a comment).
That’s why I’m saying the haiku bot is junk.
2 - In this very post, when Otome said “I never liked the Haiku Bot”… OP responded “I’ve never liked them much either”…
so I’m asking OP: “why create a bot to spam lemmy with low-value duplicate content, if you don’t even like that bot yourself?”
I’m asking you - what value do YOU think this Haiku bot adds?
You did not answer the question… I asked you:
How is a haiku bot not invasive spam?
It’s basically the same as the “all numbers in your post add up to 69” bot.
Okay - What value does a haiku bot add?
It only tells you that a post was 17 syllables…
If you agree that most bots are spam, then why are you making and promoting bots?
Here’s a human haiku:
bots are part of what
made reddit such a wasteland.
most bots are just spam.
i wish lemmy would
remain a place for humans.
why can’t we just talk?
Yeah lemmy is a chill place.
It is wild to watch the rapid expansion.
I’m waiting for the math… Support your claim that you would “make a killing”.
I don’t see how you would…
The most you could possibly make would be $32.50 in an hour… (and that’s ONLY if you had a fare for ALL 60 minutes of an hour… and somehow still made less than $32.50 from those fares).
…And you’d be driving your own car and burning gas for that whole hour…
So show me (with math) how you’d be “making a killing”.