Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Dbanno@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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So, I posted a simple Roku fix on Reddit — just explaining how to get actual antenna channels back instead of their ad-stuffed “Live TV” hub.

The post took off fast-within 90 minutes: • 8,000+ views • 12 upvotes • Dozens of people thanking me for the fix

Then… moderators nuked it as a repost.

Sequence of Events: 1. I politely asked what rule I’d broken. 2. Mod replied: “I don’t know, nor is it relevant to your ban.” 3. I joked: “Ok thank you, Paul Blart. 🙄” 4. Instantly → permanent ban + mute.

Screenshots confirmed: no rule violation, just a mod having a day.

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Follow-up Attempts: • Tried posting the story in r/help and r/ideasfortheadmins. • AutoMod deleted both — apparently the word “ban” is illegal now. • Tried to share it elsewhere, but at this point Reddit moderation feels like TSA confiscating nail clippers while waving through flamethrowers.

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Takeaway: It’s wild when platforms value control over community. I literally helped people watch TV again — and got banned for it.

Give someone a little power, and it goes straight to their head.

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The irony? My Roku fix worked. Thousands saw it before it vanished. So somewhere out there, people are happily watching TV — thanks to a guy Reddit decided to erase.

Stay tuned for Volume 2: “AutoMod vs The Word ‘Ban’.”

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db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Your first mistake was going to reddit.

Your second was abstractly talking about the fix here but not saying what it actually is.

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- Dbanno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Fair enough lol.
  
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- jali67@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Tbf, this place is still missing a bunch of communities that Reddit has
  
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  - 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Gee, what a perfect opportunity we’ve stumbled across
    
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  - prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I preferred when reddit was this size, and I prefer Lemmy to be this size (or marginally larger)
    
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- 5too@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, post the fix here!
  
  (Think you could get away with linking the fix post here from Reddit?)
  
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Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Just stop using reddit. Quit it.

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- A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Too easy to say, too many communities that are simply not here.
  
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  - Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    start them then.
    
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  - CriticalThought@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Ah yes, like food, water, and air—impossible to live without!
    
    Word to the wise: leaving makes space for alternatives that clinging to hinders.
    
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  - MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That’s cool sure.
    
    But on the other side: Reddit betrayed the social contract and deserves to rot in consequence.
    
    One droplet of lost engagement becomes an ocean; just stop showing up 🤷‍♀️
    
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Weird thing to post in a shitpost community, though. I’m pretty sure there are dedicated communities for stuff like this.

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- saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The right place would be !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
  
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  - Dbanno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Nice thanks for the pointer.
    
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  - mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Also /c/byereddit@lemmy.world
    
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- TommyJohnsFishSpot@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Just like showerthoughts, lemmings have no respect for community themes.
  
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  - rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Such a self-own to post serious stuff in a shitpost community, though …
    
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- olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yepowertrippingbastards I think
  
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- thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
  
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slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Charges: resisting arrest

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- Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Enjoying a succulent.
  
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gil2455526@lemmy.eco.br ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I was perma-banned from r/gaming because of piracy. I posted a link to an unofficial port of a decompiled, abandonware game.

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- 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  i was perma-banned from reddit for saying isreael commited a nakba in the past and every time i try to make a new account it get’s shadowbanned or just banned
  
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carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

8k views 12 upvotes

Those metrics are definetly not real.

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- REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Why? A lot of people are looking for fixes. Not many actually engage by upvoting or commenting. Seen that plenty of times on tech/help related subs
  
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  - carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Okay let’s compare this to other platforms like YT for a second, where videos usually have a 10-100 views : 1 upvote ratio.
    
    Reddit should have similar numbers, but this post has a 700 views/upvote ratio. This way too high and smells extremly fishy.
    
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  - BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Upvotes higher than views? Considering how many lurkers there are? Considering even people who engage with a post don’t necessarily upvoter? They said 8k views, 12k upvotes. Even if those numbers are reverse, that’s an insane engagement ratio.
    
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- 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Source: I made it up
  
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  - ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s well known that reddit obfuscates votes on purpose. Views I have no idea.
    
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Generica@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I used to love Reddit and it was my only social media site for a decade. But it became so Kafka-esque that it was causing me a tremendous amount of stress. Constantly fighting mod bans was akin to tilting at windmills, as it was completely pointless. So I quit cold turkey last year, deleting my account, and found Lemmy a few days later. I still find the content on Reddit incredibly helpful when I’m searching for information and posts come up on Google but I cannot interact with the site/app any longer. The constant deletions and bans are contrary to the original spirit of the site and have reached SNL sketch level.

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- 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  ah i miss the old days of reddit.
  
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- illegible@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  just being banned from /r/politics (for an innocuous comment) has lowered my blood pressure. I can’t comment so I just let it go.
  
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Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I was perma banned by admins for hurting a mods feelings. Reddit is so scared of having to pay mods they let them do whatever they want. There is no point in trying to rationalize it. As long as mods go unpaid, they will be allowed to have absolute power in the communities they control.

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roserose56@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sir this is not Reddit! We can’t do nothing about how bad Reddit is, and I recommend you posting the way to fix it in a related community here.

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- timeghost@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yes indubitably we must pounce upon such things here on lemmeshitpost lest others who just got here brighten my day with a solid Paul Blart jab
  
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- Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Trauma dumping.
  
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  - dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    #dayafterchipotle
    
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- Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  With comments like yours, I’m sure they’ll soon be disillusioned with Lemmy too.
  
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- 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  you have to realize a majority of lemmy users are ex-reddit users or a dual users as well?
  
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sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
stop using ubercorp social media

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KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
So you come to a completely different and unrelated website (and community) to complain about it while using AI to write your post? I don’t mean to be rude, but this is a bit unpleasant.

If you’re leaving Reddit in favour of Lemmy then you’re welcomed. But keep in mind, we are not Reddit and don’t want anything to do with it. Also, keep your instance’s rules and those that may apply to the community to which you are posting. If you don’t like your current instance you can migrate to a new one or make your own.

Welcome to Lemmy

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- rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I still fuck with reddit some but I do it read-only. I have a couple accounts because it’s the best place to get information on certain video games and niche hobbies.
  
  But I do refuse to participate, I only lurk. Fuck that corporation, I contribute nothing and take only data center time.
  
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  - baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Do you block their ads? Even if you do, they use your page view numbers to sell slots to ad companies at a higher price.
    
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- InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  LLMs are great for rewriting your own words. It makes people more confident and it’s what LLMs excel at anyway. It’s not generating something out of thin air, i.e. taking away creative proces, in this case.
  
  You’re not speaking for all of us. People can talk and complain about anything they want. We don’t need this kind of thought control here.
  
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  - Dbanno@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I find it ironic that I used AI to sound more human — and the mod in this instance used AI to act less like one. Rather than check to see why the bot removed my post, he simply surrendered to it as an authority.
    
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notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I might be way to sleepy but I think I’m missing something here. The way I read it, the sequence is:

you first posted something that got taken down,

you posted it again and that got you a ban because you reposted

you asked the mod who banned you why the first post was taken down, which of course doesn’t matter. You can’t keep reposting it until a mod allows it.

you were rude to the mod and got banned

I see nothing wrong here except that you MAY not have been given an explanation of why the fist post was taken down
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- Dbanno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Some clarity: it was my first Reddit post didn’t know about the no trust rules until I got the reply and then found the auto bot chat message saying don’t repost. The first message I got just said it was removed and try posting in a different forum. A quick google search showed various fixes including “temive brand name ad it looks like promoting to a bot”. I tried that and the out stayed for almost 2hours.
  
  When the mod said it was a reposting violation I asked what the original issue was so I could avoid the same mistake.
  
  The “I don’t care I just haven’t power to do this do I did it even though your post is clearly ok”answer was my complaint.
  
  With respect to rudeness, I’d say his comments were a bit cranky and had a “read the TOS dummy” vibe so I match his energy.
  
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  - notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes. You didn’t know you had to read the rules before posting. Happens to all of us. But the second time, you again reposted without reading the rules. The “try posting somewhere else” message AFIK wasn’t even sent by the mods but a generic reddit message. Yet eve though the suggestion was to literally POST SOMEWHERE ELSE, you decided to post on the same community.
    
    If you wanted to know why you post was removed, you should have asked the original and try to work with them. The second mod is following the rules.
    
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- Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Agreed, the rules were pretty clear, why did he only contact the mods the second time?
  
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Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I gave it one more shot after being away for a year. Posting my latest 3D Printer mod (after on Lemmy and the manufacturers forum). Immediately got a snarky garbage commenter. That’s what I get.

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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Post the exact comment that got you banned. I’m sure many on Lemmy would find it fun to repost it to the Roku forum over and over. We don’t care about Reddit bans.

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- Dbanno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Here it is:
  
  If you’ve been trying to watch real over-the-air channels and Roku keeps forcing you into their “Live TV” streaming hub (even with Hide Streaming Channels turned on), here’s what finally worked for me:
  
  👉 Step 1: After scanning for channels, go to Manage Channels and add one of your antenna channels to Favorites (for me, it was Channel 5). 👉 Step 2: Back on the Roku home screen, hover over the Live TV tile for 2–3 seconds before pressing OK.
  
  If you wait, Roku automatically loads your first favorite channel — you’ll go straight into antenna TV instead of the streaming hub.
  
  If you click too fast, it jumps right back into the ad-stuffed streaming Live TV interface.
  
  It’s a weird UX quirk, but this workaround actually works every time once you’ve got a favorite set. Hopefully Roku separates those inputs properly someday, but until then… this saved my sanity. 😂
  
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  - Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Sounds like you got banned for showing people how to get away from ads. That’s not allowed by our corporate overlords.
    
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rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Welcome to federated social media my dude. You’re better off without that shithole.

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aarch0x40@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I had setup some Lemmy accounts a while back but was procrastinating on settling into them. Received a 2-week ban for a Rule 1 violation because context is irrelevant to Reddit. Took the opportunity to finally finish setting up in the Fediverse and haven’t opened Reddit since.

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Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
8k views means 7k ai scrapers downloading the same resource over and over

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Dbanno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Update: No regrets — the fix still works and my sanity remains unbanned. 😂

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- forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I have my doubts about your sanity - everybody knows that only crazy people use reddit! ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
  
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  - Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    What about MY sanity???
    
    Can’t sleep clowns will masturbate me…
    
    Can’t sleep clowns will masturbate me…
    
    Can’t sleep clowns will masturbate me…
    
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  - Dbanno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    🤣 I do too actually.
    
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- Zier@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Can you post the Roku fix in this thread? That would help people and undo the censorship Reddit did to the Roku users.
  
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- KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Why does this read like AI?
  
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  - gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It’s just because they used novel punctuation — some people still type like this.
    
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    Does it?
    
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- AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  What was the fix?
  
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Surp@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Fuck reddit I mean that’s all. I stopped looking at it so long ago.

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Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Welcome to the fediverse! We’ve got Star Trek, Linux, and seasonal beans.

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- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Please stop being a stereotype.
  
  I like Lemmy. I don’t like any of those things. Well…ok, I like beans, but only raw. Preferably freshly grown.
  
  Point is, if you limit the image of what Lemmy is, outsiders will say “Well I don’t give a fuck about Linux, or Star Trek. I guess I don’t belong here…”
  
  And yes, I do acknowledge that your interests are ALSO valid, and deserve their own communities. I just think the only way Lemmy grows is if the answer to the question “Whats on Lemmy?” is “Everything”.
  
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  - Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    I like beans, but only raw.
    
    Uh… You really should cook 'em. They can be toxic otherwise.
    
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- ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Don’t forget German ramen and sturgeon/fish
  
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Dbanno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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Didn’t mean to spark a sociology thesis — I just got banned for fixing Roku. 😂

Apologies if this isn’t the right forum — it’s my first post and first Lemmy experience.

Here’s the Roku fix for those asking: 1️⃣ Add at least one of your antenna channels to Favorites first. 2️⃣ Then hover over the Live TV tile on your Roku home screen for a few seconds. 3️⃣ It should auto-open straight into your antenna feed (not the ad-stuffed “Live TV” hub). 4️⃣ Do this a few times — it seems to “train” the TV to default back to your real over-the-air channels.

Doesn’t matter whether “Hide Streaming Channels” is on or off — this trick forces it back to antenna mode. ✅ Still works as of 11-1-25.

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Side note on the “AI wrote this” comments: I didn’t use ChatGPT to pretend to be smart — I used it the same way we all use spellcheck, Grammarly, or code formatters: to make my thoughts read cleaner instead of rambling.

It’s funny that on a tech platform, of all places, using a tool that helps structure text offends some folks. 😅

The ideas are mine — I just used something to help me say them clearly. Seems like that’s kind of the point of technology, no?

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- lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  When a post is formatted as if an AI wrote it, it becomes hard to tell if the thoughts are those of the person or the AI. At least with shitty granmar or spelling, one can be reasonably sure that the thoughts of the person are being expressed, which is (IMO) more important than making things look pretty.
  
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  - TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    When a post is formatted as if an AI wrote it,
    
    My brother in Ra, AI is trained on human writing.
    
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  - Dbanno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    That’s fair. But for someone like me who has a hard time being clear and concise GPT or any tool that can render my babbling into a clear coherent statement is helpful. I still have to review , edit , and finalize.
    
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- bryndos@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Didn’t mean to spark a sociology thesis
  
  Be careful what you say where on lemmy then. This type of outcome is pretty much par for the course for a shitpost.
  Stick to the politics thread if you want a lighthearted shitty experience.
  
  ps- whats a roku? and if you're so into technology and all why are you not just using nixos? It can do anything else that any other thing can do with just one awesome config file???
  /j
  
  pps - If you can rile up tankies, linux users and get a sociology thesis out of someone all in one shitpost, then you'll win a lemming-turd-cake - one of the highest honours in all shitpostdom.
  
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  - Dbanno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Not bad for a first post I guess 🤣
    
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slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Is this !fuck_ai@lemmy.world ?

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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Stop using ChatGPT to write your posts. If you’re Roku fix was formatted like this one, I’d pull it off my community too

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1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
what did paul blart do to you? that guy is a legend!

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turdcollector69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This is why I don’t use reddit anymore.

I think reddit has lost most of its human users so it’s just NPC’s and bots.

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WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Some dumb shit I said, was apparently appreciated by people too, I even had Reddit friends. Reddit isn’t worthy of any of us.

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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’ve been auto shadowbanned from a technical community, more than once. No idea why. It’d be nice to have a conversation with a mod like that, at least.

It seems others have too. Whenever I go back to check, it’s like all the brainpower has been sucked from the sub.

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SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
… So what’s the fix?

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cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
So? Where’s the fix?

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