Deebster

Good. To quote WarGames:

The only winning move is not to play

Meta is at best looking to profit from the Fediverse, and more likely looking to extinguish it. I think blocking them at the borders is the only solution.

They call them them magazines, e.g. @wholesome@kbin.social is at https://kbin.social/m/wholesome or here on beehaw at https://beehaw.org/c/wholesome@kbin.social.

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It’s both, I believe, there are apps they use directly with more powerful tools than the site gives you, and bots like automod that can enforce policy (e.g. “title must include IRTR” or “image posts must also have a comment explaining …”).

Haha, I think I just had a little rant at you there even though you were saying the same things I was saying. Bad habits… I don’t think I’ll be on reddit much now, hopefully enough people stay around to make this place quite active still.

It should be fine - it was busy enough before the blackout, and of course all the good apps will stop working soon, along with a bunch of essential tools for modding, etc.

I noticed maliciouscompliance appear here, welcome!

So many don’t understand that the mods need those tools, and don’t care about people who need the accessibility (although I suspect that argument is popular more for having the moral high ground).

[they] didn’t do anything wrong I just didn’t agree with them

And that’s why it’s disabled! That’s not what it’s meant to be for, it’s meant to be for things that don’t add to the conversation. If it’s factually wrong then fine - downvote, but don’t do it to suppress others’ opinions.

I think when you’re communicating, it’s good etiquette to make sure people can read your post easily - your five minutes could save hundreds or thousands of people time.

That said, capitalisation isn’t required, as long as it’s clear. I think line breaks are more important.

I do take it as a signal that the writer might be worth listening to if they’ve bothered to take the care to get their thoughts and fingers in order - as opposed to some stream of conscious babble that you can read multiple times and still not sure if you’ve understood it.

I used to use Swype and now I use Gboard and both do capitalisation and other handy things like double space to end a sentence - maybe check your settings.

should only reply to posts/comments when explicitly requested to

I assume you mean somelike like !remindme 4 days but then one of your examples is “half a cup of onions” and I can’t see your fictional American thinking to trigger the bot - which means someone would have to reply to that person to request a bot conversion.

Similarly, there’s a music IDing bot on reddit that responds to human-language questions like “whats the song” which is 100% ok with me (and the users have always been pleasantly surprised from what I’ve seen).

If it’s the same post I saw, that was one of the main devs - he then mused that someone should create that bot here.

I like this model, although circlejerk can be the meme version too. Even a fairly quiet sub like /r/baduk/ begat /r/badukshitposting/ and it works well.

Yeah, when a simple bots can post most of the replies. E.g. if post.contains("r/theydidthemath") { post.reply("/r/theydidthemonstermath"); } then it’s gone too far. There are some good, creative ones, like The Old Reddit Switch-a-roo, but they’re too few and far between.

I’d never heard of the Maidenhead Locator System so I thought perhaps that was a typo. I went to uni close to there (which is South England) but lately I live in SE Asia (it’s too hot!)