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2 days agoMaybe you can take your own advice, and not spent time replying to comments you don’t like? I hear it’s really that simple.
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞
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And if not, WHY NOT
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It’s always interesting to see people commenting who don’t understand how reddit works. Which is fair - you can have an opinion. But knowing how it works makes a difference in how seriously I can take your opinion.
Mods on reddit cannot do a sitewide ban. They can ban you from one or more subreddits they moderate.
Admins do sitewide bans, which is what’s happened here, since you can see the profile has been banned.
And these days, with reddit’s shitty AI moderation, it probably means a ban done by AI.
Because this is not a normal person, someone will probably take a look at it and overturn it.
If you’re a regular joe, however, them taking a look at it even if you appeal is pretty damned rare. And as some have mentioned - things that trigger AI as a “threat of violence” that a normal human would easily see are not - doesn’t matter, AI bans. You get a warning, 24-hour, 3-day, 10-day, 30-day, then permanent. Unless there’s something that accellerates that.
As much as many people manage to survive without saying things AI picks up on, it’s damn easy to get unjustly banned, and it’s only gotten worse and worse over time.
Anyone in this thread talking about bans from mods is technically offtopic, except that reddit itself is also the topic, so that’s fine, but you should understand that a mod banning you is not similar to what happened here. :P
*28 day mute :)
Your loss. The Register has been rock solid tech news (if a bit cheeky) for decades.
I get 2-3 contacts per day on Telegram. I used to interact with them to find out what the scam was. Makes sense that it would be multi-layer like that (per the article).
I found that the most common were reviews or adding things to amazon shopping carts to fuel demand, along with some bitcoin / investment (especially silver/gold) stuff.
I eventually realized it was boring. They quickly use AI to reply to you, so no matter what you write you get this encouraging nonsense back that adds nothing. You’re basically talking to yourself. And you can tell when they actually write the reply since the length and quality of the English quickly drops. heh
Judging by the fact that tabs in the app go to webpages… seems like not much was probably spent in developing it.
I use a TV for my monitor - last job I worked I really needed the screen real estate for excel.
I hate hate hate when I shut the computer off or power goes off and when the TV comes back on, it auto-plays some “free” streaming channel, which is ALWAYS fascist propaganda. I rush to turn that shit off just as quickly as I can. Fuck that shit.
Yeah, and what’s worse is that there’s not really any good alternatives anyone has seemed to find yet. heh
The fascists always attack free speech, and our first amendment rights have been under attack from many directions.
Liar. I already read the article before opening the comments. YOU SAVED ME NOTHING.
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31·10 days agoI disagree. This has been a thing for 20+ years. Facebook started out the same way. So did reddit. That’s one reason the founders of reddit created mulitple accounts to post from at first - to make the network look larger than it was.
I’ve joined several networks over the years that didn’t pan out. The one I remember from a few years ago was Imzy. Good platform, just didn’t take off.
That’s… the wrong way to look at it.
Systems are often resiliant in the light of individual variation. Discarding voting entirely because of the actions of a few is like seeing the outliers in people clicking where they think a country is on a map. Sure, you’ll see a lot of dumb guesses that are radically incorrect, but the majority of clicks tend to be on the country.
In the same way, the voting tends to generally work, for a given understanding that voting was always theoretically (from reddit days) supposed to be upvoting good contributions and downvoting spam./trolls/etc, but voting is also or even more about what people agree with. So as long as you realize that’s what’s actually happening, voting is generally accurate enough.
Of course it’s infuriating when people agree with things that are wrong, but that is a wholly different issue.
The problem is building the network. Nobody uses it because nobody uses it and nobody will use it until everybody uses it.
That has always been and will always be the primary problem. You can solve all of the other problems and it won’t matter.
The alternative is Facebook with lies that go unchecked completely. This is actually an area where AI is not bad.
edit: sigh. Refusing to acknowledge where things can be useful. NO, ALL BAD. BAD BAD BAD! AI BAD! ALWAYS BAD! NO USE! NO GOOD! ONLY BAD! BAD BAD BAD! Such fucking blindness.
Level one, level two, level three. WHAT NOW, BITCHES?
I prefer mine grated so they still have a little bite.
Sounds to me like two different systems - one that uses older data gathering and they just didn’t update it, and the one they’re talking about involves footage from assets flying over the country, waiting to be directed to strike.
They both have major flaws, just different ones. IMHO / speculation
It’s what you told them to do… you… advised them… to do that. Because you clearly didn’t like their comment.
It really is that simple, unless you’re being willfully ignorant.
Besides, the CLASSIC reply is to try and throw it back in MY face like I threw it in yours.