1: isn’t mandatory to be a mod.
2: in a visible way 3: not mandatory so long as the community is running smoothly without spam, trolls or other bad actors.
4: those communities have been purring along without causing problems the entire time; at least debian has, I don’t frequent the others

Look, I’m not saying that having an active mod isn’t useful; it is. I’m saying that you can’t tell when a mod is active just by their post and comment history. Admins of an instance can, but we can’t.

Just being real here, the fediverse is mostly bush league still. We don’t get the massive spammers and trolls the way other places do. Nor is it a bad thing that communities flow organically rather than being artificially packed by a mod. Hell, there’s been communities where the owner did exactly what you’re talking about, and now people have them blocked because it gets old fast. Artificial engagement is artificial.

I’ll also say that if you aren’t motivated to post to a community that doesn’t have a mod/owner posting from an account on that instance, as a mod/owner, that’s a you thing. The only time a community is abandoned is when the community abandons it, not the mods. What matters in terms of there being a point to posting is the other users, the other members. Now, it definitely can happen that an absentee mod can turn into a disengaged community. Absolutely can happen. But I just don’t see it very often.

Mind you, I’ve only been a daily or near daily fediverse user since the reddit API debacle. Before that, it was pretty much an afterthought for me. But in those few years, I’ve only rarely seen where a mod being an active poster made a difference a handful of times. History memes being a prime example.

I’m not trying to shit on you, I just don’t think it’s the kind of problem you think it is, and pointing out that mods posting or not isn’t a 1:1 correlation with them actively moderating

Just realize that it isn’t proof that someone isn’t moderating.

I have accounts on multiple instances that “own” communities. I moderate with them, but they otherwise look inactive. Moderating on the fediverse is a pain in the ass. Trying to do it from an instance that you don’t have an account on makes it worse, but flipping between accounts makes using the fediverse an even bigger pain in the ass. So the thing a lot of people do is stay subscribed to their communities and only flip over when something needs attention. Even on big communities, it works.

Nope. It amounts to a hill of beans in terms of getting a conviction. Too easy to work around, and there’s no proof inherent in a video that it’s real rather than a performance set up to entertain. By itself, it’s a nothingburger. Might be enough to starr an investigation, but that’s about it.

No worries :)

Basically, not enough evidence means that the state can’t automatically do what you’re asking, and that’s a good thing because we really don’t want a world where people can get thrown in jail without evidence

How do you know “anyone” isn’t?

It’s not like law enforcement gets all hyped up to talk about doing an investigation. To the contrary.

Secondary to that, what jurisdiction was it reported to? I assume someone made a report. But if nobody did, then there’s a good possibility than no enforcement agency is aware of the purported crimes.

I had to look the fucker up, but it’s not like he was on a national broadcast like used to exist. He was streaming when questionable materials were visible on screen. Everything else is dubious, and not likely to amount to shit in court, so not many prosecutors will touch it. Seriously, the only documented evidence is of stuff that is very low use in building a case.

So, if it got reported, and if someone investigated already, there’s a chance they didn’t find anything worth prosecuting. If the investigation is ongoing, they might not find anything at all. If the idiot did what he said and got rid of files what would be illegal on discovering they were, indeed, illegal, where’s the motivation to prosecute? It would be a drain of resources for little to no benefit to the population at large. Not that such prosecutions never happen, but if the case is weak to begin with, most DA offices don’t want to fuck with their stats.

Seriously, if the cursory search I ran gave enough of the facts, dude doesn’t need to be arrested, or charged, or put on trial. Plenty of morons don’t realize that anime/manga can fall under kiddie porn laws (and they don’t everywhere).

Like it or not, it’s a pointless thing to go after the guy based on what was documented

There’s this thing where an arrest has to follow some kind of investigation. It’s part of the concept of due process.

Doesn’t matter what it is, the person has rights, and if the state jumps the gun on an arrest, it could end up screwing the prosecution. Not worth it to do that just to placate moral panic.

Idgaf about leeches.

The point of that kind of thing is open access to the media. It’s not some kind of non monetary business. I’m not injured or out of anything if someone can’t port forward and needs to just get stuff. I can’t always share from every device, and me grabbing files than is no worse than when I can.

The only time leechers matter is if it’s slowing down your connection.

The zero thing was hyperbole, but there are numbers available. Voter fraud has never been significant enough to matter, despite being non zero.

And no, not everyone can obtain the mandated IDs. It’s a real problem specifically because the mandated IDs are harder to get for the poor amd disenfranchised.

Nah, there were early studies on this pre-internet, which also means pre-smart devices.

I can already answer that one: essentially none

Hang around down undah much?

Bad body lol.

Between arthritis, a deteriorating back, and the extra clean-up and work involved in maintaining bread making (be it sourdough or with commercial yeast), it was just too many spoons.

I keep hoping my household will settle down enough that I have the inner and physical resources to get back to it though! There’s so much peace in the process.

Allaya’ll damn yankees go back!

Damn, I miss making bread. Just seeing the title makes me want to restart my sourdough culture

I’m stuck in DDD land too. It totally sucks, and you have my sympathy

Most of the time. There’s rare exceptions. It’s the old “if your only tool is a hammer” thing.

Sadly, part of those are just not wanting to take on a high risk patient at all.

But there are surgeons that will give advice based on the actual patient needs and recommend other treatments, and outright refuse to do a surgery.

But, yeah, surgeons in general assume that a patient coming to them needs surgery. That’s partly because they don’t tend to get patients walking in the front door independently. They’re going to be seeing patients referred to them by someone else that thinks surgical intervention is a possible best choice.

They’re also trained to think like surgeons. Once they’re into training as a surgeon, they learn the human body, and thus the application of medical science, as something that gets operated on. Every problem becomes one to address in that way because they’ve spent years shaping their minds to be very good at that.

It’s really no different in that regard than an it guy thinking of a computer problem in terms of their specialty, or a mechanic wanting to rebuild something that might be fine with a spray of wd40 and some duct tape.

Hell, surgeons regularly have to deal with patients insisting on a surgery when other modalities are more appropriate. It’s a thing they gripe about

Can confirm, their mom carried me to school often, and only required infrequent lubrication. Wasn’t great up hills though

I don’t think they approach necessity tbh. At best, they’re a bandaid, and a crutch for parents.

But the drawbacks of the laws that have been implemented so far, and are trying to be, as vast overreaches that give a false sense of security with no real benefit. They also do that by placing even more information into the hands of the very companies causing the problem in the first place.

That’s where regulations would focus in an ideal world, limiting the companies from causing the problems in the first place, not slapping bad patches over them.

Yeah, and that’s how you get shitty age verification laws.

It’s a double edged sword

Yeah, and 6.9 is something nice broken up by a period