ericjmorey
@ericjmorey@lemmy.world
I created a space for people to make connections and learn from each other. I call it Grok.Town and plan to start up a Lemmy instance at that domain, but for now it’s a space on Matrix with a few rooms to chat and get to know one another. Check it out @ matrix.to/#/#groktown:matrix.org
- Comment on Mods of !news are now banning people for criticizing the MBFC bot? 2 months ago:
I’m not sure why you were banned, I was just annoyed about reading a screenshot of text.
- Comment on Mods of !news are now banning people for criticizing the MBFC bot? 2 months ago:
It’s different in my view. As the mods and admins are experiencing a loosely coordinated brigade of vitriolic messages. It’s no surprise to me that they responded by filtering out those who are being persistent in bad faith communication. But they have in fact been receptive to improving the bot based on feedback. They have not, however, instantly determined and implemented any improvements.
Reviewing the situation as an outsider. It seems that the mods and admins are not wrong and those complaining are ill-informed about many aspects of what they’re complaining about and are being belligerent in their ignorance. But even if they were 100% informed and correct about Media Bias Fact Check, their behavior has been out of line.
- Comment on Mods of !news are now banning people for criticizing the MBFC bot? 2 months ago:
I agree with that.
- Comment on Mods of !news are now banning people for criticizing the MBFC bot? 2 months ago:
The boost app developers really should fix that. Spoilers are working the vast majority of lemmy frontend UIs.
- Comment on Mods of !news are now banning people for criticizing the MBFC bot? 2 months ago:
The level of vitriol that the banned users have been spewing seems like harassment of the mods.
- Comment on Mods of !news are now banning people for criticizing the MBFC bot? 2 months ago:
To be honest, none of what I’m seeing in these comment seems worthy of a ban.
I don’t agree with this. It seems like people are harassing the mods for the mods having a different opinion. These people don’t seem interested in any counterpoints or evidence that undermines their opinions which don’t seem to take relevant facts into account.
- Comment on Mods of !news are now banning people for criticizing the MBFC bot? 2 months ago:
Quote: [the quote is really long, pls dont make me type it and just look at the link lol]
Result: 15 day ban
Note: the comment precedes the ban by 26 days, but catloaf’s recent comment history contains opinions critical of the LW News mod team
I copied it for you:
Link to the study, because the fuckers never do: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405334121 Here’s what I was looking for: > In all studies, we made certain that the participants and the people in the images were from the same nationality, since cultural familiarity is critical for the face–name matching effect to occur. Additionally, this survey was conducted by Israelis, and since it says it was translated into English in the paper, I assume it was conducted in Hebrew. They say “socioeconomic cues such as age and ethnicity are experimentally controlled”, but I don’t see that they explain how. My suspicion is that the results are affected by non-facial cues like clothing, hairstyle, facial hair, and indeed age. For example, if I showed you a picture of an old woman and asked if her name was Doris, Helen, Megan, or Kayley, which do you think it is? If I showed you a picture of a guy with short dark hair, possibly graying, beard stubble, and a collared denim shirt, is his name Edgar, Clarence, Emil, or James? Further, since they did some kind of control over the prompts, I have to assume they presented faces and names the respondents would be familiar with, meaning this does not necessarily hold outside of Israel and Israelis (and I assume mostly people ethnically Israeli Jewish). This reinforces my belief that their methodology is flawed, and while people might look like their names, their faces themselves do not change to fit, rather there’s a correlation with other factors like age (i.e. name popularity over time), grooming style, and so on.
- Comment on Need help building a community for AMA Requests need help moding and other stuff more inside...and thank you ahead of time for all who reply 2 months ago:
It turns out that this guy is a troll that changed the information in the link to the post I was questioning. He was asking about finding child porn and then gaslit an apology out of me. Fuck em.
- Comment on Media Bias Bot's comments don't display correctly in Sync 2 months ago:
It’s formatted properly with Lemmy markdown. This is on the Sync developers to handle a very common feature in Lemmy properly.
- Comment on Requesting !fountainpens@lemmy.world 2 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Requesting c/Sixers, an unmodded community 3 months ago:
What?
- Submitted 3 months ago to support@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Requesting c/Sixers, an unmodded community 3 months ago:
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people on Lemmy browsing all that downvote any Sports content. Makes it hard to establish a community.
- Comment on Need help building a community for AMA Requests need help moding and other stuff more inside...and thank you ahead of time for all who reply 3 months ago:
I’m going to be honest with you. I have no idea what I was thinking. When I wrote that message. I apologize for disturbing you with nonsense. I’m going to delete my prii message.
- Comment on Would Lemmy.World admins consider changing how the featured community spotlight, and trending communities work? 3 months ago:
And then there’s the trending section.
That’s just a bug the Lemmy project software that isn’t being given any priority by the current developers. Hopefully someone takes the time to submit a fix to the code.
- Comment on Would Lemmy.World admins consider changing how the featured community spotlight, and trending communities work? 3 months ago:
I took the comment you replied to as a suggestion to make the spotlight change weekly because people are not always on Lemmy World everyday.
- Comment on [Request] I would like to take over an abandoned community 5 months ago:
No one has problems with not backing up their data until they find themselves in a position where backing up their data could have saved a lot of grief.
- Comment on [Request] I would like to take over an abandoned community 5 months ago:
I recommend making an account on the instance of the community you’re moderating as owner due to wierd federation effects on moderation acrions.
- Comment on Community on Federated Instance not Updating/Syncing 11 months ago:
This seems like a strange application of the rules unless the individual bots are banned due to posting to lemmy.world communities.
- Comment on What is the best way to link a Lemmy Community? 1 year ago:
LOL This bot recommending the thing that doesn’t work right and is being phased out.
- Comment on What is the best way to link a Lemmy Community? 1 year ago:
it fails ungracefully when the linked community isn’t federated with the one the visitor is following the URL from
- Comment on What is the best way to link a Lemmy Community? 1 year ago:
Use /c/support@lemmy.world I usually make it a hyperlink like this: support@lemmy.world | Local Link
- Comment on What is the best way to link a Lemmy Community? 1 year ago:
The exclamation mark is extraneous and creates confusing a visual indicator as to whether a link is to the hosting instance of the community rather than a link to the federated copy on whatever instance you’re on. It works one way in some circumstances and the opposite way in others. And it won’t work at all for people who are on an instance that hasn’t federated with that community. It has in fact been depreciated by the main devs of Lemmy but that’s only documented in comments to github issues.
- Comment on I'd like to be made mod of the inactive reddevils community on lemmy.world 1 year ago:
How do you define “no active mods”? Are they leaving up inappropriate posts?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
No.