For claiming GMOs are bred for glyphosate resistance, which is the real reason why USDA Organic products grew significantly in the market, not because consumers actually think Organic produce is “naturally” healthier.
But this was only enforced after I pissed off the mod in Political Memes and he went backwards through my comment history to find me in another community he mods to delete another comment lol.
Still a million times better than the reddit experience.
Lemme guess, that mod’s username starts with j and ends with d? Cuz that sure sounds familiar.
Literally the only mod action I can recall encountering here. Squatting on communities to control discourse like that is Reddit all over again, sadly. Still like it more, but it doesn’t bode well.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I specifically find the moddng behavior over at .world to be a huge problem. It’s good to have other places to go but that only reduces the big impact they make on Lemmy but so much.
Surprisingly no, but I’m pretty sure he’s the reason lemmy.ml has a separate world news community lol.
Reminds me of the community I got banned from because I didn’t see the rule that said you had to source all quotes, which apparently means you have to source the quote to the person you’re responding to, when you quote the comment you’re responding to. Fukkin brilliant rules
Some mods are just power hungry twats
“1984”
~1984, George Orwell
It’s fine that they removed my comment, but their rules don’t say anything about “keeping it positive”
Besides, I’d consider wishing Trump would die to be neutral/optimistic.
Some could argue that you weren’t civil with Trump.
But that is far fetched and Trump isn’t civil in any conversation
I assumed wishing Trump would die was the equivalent of wishing someone a good day.
Wishing Trump would die is accepting reality that some people are inherently evil and them being alive has no value. This isn’t positive, is it? It’s sad as fuck.
The day that monster finally dies should be an international holiday. But then again, I don’t think he deserves that honour!
Thought of something fun the other day. While putting away groceries in the fridge, I realized that having a nubbin or something on the bottom of the refrigerator door would be massively helpful, allowing me to manipulate the door with my foot while I have full arms/hands.
So I went to reddit ‘showerthoughts’, which I thought was an appropriate venue for the idea, posted aaaaaaand immediately deleted. Mod said “read the rules,” and -no joke- it was like 5 pages of bullshit, wrapped in bullshit with bullshit bullet points. And despite reading it carefully, nowhere did I find the supposed rule I violated which was “to reply to your own post in the comments.”
Bro, fuck your website, fuck your rules, and fuck you.
I remember getting inspired by the “Polandball” comics, so I drew one myself. Even followed all the stylistic rules laid out on the sub and everything. But instead of just being allowed to post it you have to submit it to a mod first. And the mod rejected it because he didn’t get the joke. So explained the joke to them but they still thought it didn’t make sense, so I didn’t get a licence to post in the end.
I understand that there are rules for the kind of stuff you want to allow but come on man…
I made a polandball, submitted to the mod, and was told the joke was overused so rejected.
It was in the vein all the other jokes currently were, hence why I went with it.
It’s a shame they’re so gatekeepy. I found them quite fun in the past but since my experience trying to contribute unsubbed and never looked again. Fuck them
We could start our own polandball here! With blackjack! And hookers!
Reddit is in the end stages of an online forum. It’s too big to be good now. That’s why we are here. It’s way better
that looks a bit like Reddit. I still don’t understand why I got banned but I don’t caree anymore: it’s a way too pro american forum anyway.
I got banned from a reddit group because I didn’t state my post in the form of a question. Like some jeopardy shit.
oh yeah I got a post removed for the same reason so I just started adding question marks even when it made no scene?
Cum gutters.
Ngl I find it kinda fun to read rules and think what situations they would apply to.
Remembering the rules on the other hand…
At this point it is easier to copy the comunity rules to the AI chatbot and ask it to check the message you want to publish.
The relationship between word and reality is optionally entirely arbitrary. If we want to communicate then we have that option, but if we want to bullshit then we can do that too.
The only way around that is a legal court or formal peer review. Which is why we invented them.
And we don’t have those here.
Need to pass some arbitrary outrageous version of the bar exam to participate on Reddit.
As someone who actually does read the rules for a bunch of places; they often have no relationship to what actually gets enforced.
This isn’t just a problem for social media communities. A bunch of business use boilerplate contracts and terms-of-service that again have no relation to how they actually operate.
I had a post about dishwashers (from the Technology Connections guy) removed from the Technology community because it wasn’t “on topic.” I’m sorry if I missed that dishwashers have been around since the Bronze Age.
Bronze is still technology. So are stone tools, and sticks when they’re used as tools.
Absolutely, and I really, really hate that. Admittedly I’m also autistic, so I probably take rules a bit more serious than many people. But still I am heavily confused by the concept that we live by laws every day which most of us never heard or read about. Especially in Germany, where I live, we have a lot of laws for everything, and 90% of them aren’t really enforced, but it still is theoretically expected of me to abide by them.
Just a strange concept overall.
There are a lot of cases where rules are a bit too strict, and it’s expected you might violate them where they don’t make sense - though if you do, you might be putting yourself at risk, and if something happens, the rule might protect anyone else involved.
But what pisses me off is that speed limits are consistently ignored. People might get mad at you for driving the speed limit. Either the limits are set stupidly low and need to be changed, or society needs to get its shit together and stop endangering people. Probably both.
There’s been experiments around changing speed limits. What they found is that people consistently speed by about a constant amount over the posted limit, so they keep the posted limit lower, and have all enforcement be at around 10mph over it.
Yay path dependence!
It’s a story told to keep the baby from crying.
All rules and laws are always open to interpretation and arbitrary. I heard that in a presentation by a historian of jurisprudence. She said that many people think that national law is clear but international isn’t but neither is. All can be (and are) used by the rich and powerful. Not only do they lobby in the process of the creation of laws but also in their enforcement.
Also Terms and Conditions.
My favourite is when the privacy policy is behind a “do you accept our privacy policy, yes or yes” popup
Yup.
I remember in late 2003, when I read the legalese bumf that came with Windows XP… very long, and painful, drudgesome, cryptic, hiding “deal with the devil clauses” (they can change the agreement after you agree), and very restrictive.
Then I read the GNU GPL v1, and other Free Software licenses.
Never went back to the abuse of proprietary licensed operating systems.
The freedom, the upfront honesty, the brevity, the simplicity, … I thought for sure “The Year of the GNU+Linux Desktop” was sure to be the next year. … Everybody else reads the terms and conditions… right?
I read the terms and Conditions for Windows 10. It was clear that the person who wrote that had neither understanding of writing Terms and Conditions nor understanding of software. It was only later that I realized most laws are also written by people that neither know how to write laws nor understand the topic that law applies to.
Those arw like the best sites ever: https://www.tldrlegal.com/ https://tosdr.org/en I’il reae the summary and if i really feel like i’il read the whole shit
Idk about y’all but sometimes(actually, rarely, i do it more if i need it) i do read TOS/EULAs, depend how long and how much time i have though.
Most of the TOSes boil down to: “Don’t be a jerk towards us. Don’t be a jerk towards others. We don’t owe you the service. Sue us in California.” I usually skim the TOS to see if there’s something unusual.
As Louis Rossmann says, they have a rapist mentality
Mods on Reddit: Make sure you check the “do not post” list to make sure your post is not one of the 3k listed
Dude, I swear I still have PTSD from that shithole lol
Everytime I post a meme I stare at New for almost 10 minutes waiting for it to get removed, before I remember “Oh wait, this is Lemmy”
Seen posts with -50 downvotes that still stay at the top of Hot lol, it’s glorious
It was so off putting when you just wanted to share something and proceeded to get struck down by the wrath of the mods, or worse, the completely opaque auto filtering CQS system. As you can probably tell from my profile, I love making memes, but only really had the courage to start when I joined Lemmy, since if I made a bad one here it would just get downvoted and I would have a chance. This place is such a breath of fresh air.
Where are you all posting that have such heavy handed mods?
Reddit and Discord.
On Reddit almost every post from before 2024 has been removed (except if its porn or gore then it has been reposed 10 times, properly archived, protected from link rot and mod approved).
On Discord most servers dont keep records of who gets banned/have no appeal process.
Ikr? I don’t think I’ve had anything removed yet, and it’s not like I’ve been being super nice or anything lol
I doubt it’s lemmy. But I get stuff removed all the time from the various forums I’m on, for random ass reasons. Sometimes it’s language, despite literally everyone saying fuck constantly. I got one removed for bumping an “old thread” which was about 8 weeks old, and still on the front page. Inconsistent enforcement is the most annoying thing.
