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Thoughts on the self promotion rules that many Reddit subs have? ( programming.dev )

Isn't this what upvotes and downvotes are for? Do they only want posts about billionaire mega corporations? 10% is a really strict cutoff for people that make things as a hobby. What else am I gonna post when everything else is already posted instantly? I can't post to r/pcgaming for the same reason....

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When a new episode of a Disney series comes out, a post is made promoting it and no one is warned for self promotion despite the post very likely coming from Disney Marketing

Situational. There are absolutely folks obsessed with meaningless internet points who are all too eager to get that first post about Herp Derp: The Series, a D list celeb from that show you liked dying, or crossposting a meme about birds to every bird, meme, bird meme and meme bird subreddit out there. Gallowboob got a literal job from doing it. This doesn't mean that bots aren't doing it as well, just that sometimes they aren't necessary.

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Isn't this what upvotes and downvotes are for?

If they let up and downvotes run the site there'd be dicks on the front page of r/aww on the daily.

10% is a really strict cutoff for people that make things as a hobby.

I always explained it thusly when I modded: We don't want a content creator with a reddit account, we want a redditor who does some content creation. Plenty of site to participate in and plenty to talk/post about that doesn't involve your thing.

I don't know the particulars in your case nor am I especially interested in going on reddit to learn them but if that mod is saying tone it back some, then tone it back some. Tone it back more then the 10% so it doesn't look like you're trying to game the system too much.

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flying squid, return2ozma, jeffw, and that raging moron Stern is about it for me.

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On one hand great, on the other, has the "Confirm you're an adult" prompt ever stopped a curious young man who just learned the word, "boobs" from viewing adult imagery?

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Always felt like the Persona and SMT games were fairly different beasts despite the connection. The daily routine, (and thus time) being a part of Persona means you have to plan ahead a bit more then in SMT where the only decisions you might want to have a save before making are the good/neutral/evil path ones.

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Got big piles of books, games, shows, and at least one unstarted but have all the stuff project I'd knock out. After all that? Prob a lot of self work and maybe give herb gardening a go.

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Thry allowed the jailbait subreddit for years, nearly subreddit of the year at one point. It was a subheader for reddit on google even. Big news report? Now its gone.

They allowed Fatpeoplehate for years. One of the most active subs on the site, and absolutely poisoned the rest of it with their rhetoric. Then they went after some imgur staff and got banned with the quickness... and a few months later you could host your images on reddit. The lines there aren't too difficult to read between.

The_Donald was allowed to be shit for years, but once Trump was on his way out, then they banned it.

reddit operates reactively, not proactively.

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They had a group of subs for a fair while early on collectively known as the chimpire, and no, they werent fans of curious george.

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Can't speak for the boat story, but after fatpeoplehate was banned, there was a study that showed that many shitters left/changed their behavior

https://www.vice.com/en/article/zm3ez3/study-finds-that-banning-trolls-works-to-some-degree

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.07354

Slur filter censoring the string "the app" (without a space in between) ( lemmy.world )

So, not sure if I am completely off base here, but I had this odd thing happen today where I couldn't post an URL because whenever I did, part of it would be replaced with the text removed. You can see what I am talking about in the screenshot, and I am linking my comment below. Another commenter replied saying it was likely...

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I'm fine with censoring spam personally (which was what the filter was originally doing, per lemmyworld admins).

I'm also fine with using ublock to censor ads fwiw.

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“So guys getting blown up in trenches in Ukraine by drones? Ha, totally not age-restricted,” the creator said. “ Me firing a 3D printed pink glock that I made? Age-restricted. We don’t need kids watching that. We want kids watching people getting blown up by mines. Love it. Awesome.”

Guys missing the corpo bottom line.

Gun manufacturers have gotten sued by families of school shooting victims. Youtube runs the risk of getting dragged into court because little Billy sees the 3D printed pink glock, decides that he can make that, that its time to fuck up some bullies, and then after that those bullies parents shoot lawyers in every direction (which includes Youtube, even if the odds of getting anything are minimal) like mushroom spores. That risk assessment doesn't exist for Ukraine war vids.

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Finna change that "everything" to, "everything with a legible logo"

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Goatse, 1man1jar, 2girls1cup, Mr. Hands, BME Pain Olympics, and unhealthy amounts of 4chan means the horrors of today slide off me like water off a ducks back.

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Every famous person has a couple dickriders. It just gets more disappointing and pathetic the further you go down the ladder

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https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/30/afghanistan-tourism-vacation-taliban/

They are hoping to make it a tourist spot but it wasn't going well before this, and certainly not going to get better now.

What band or music group would you not have minded if they didn't have a certain band member? ( kbin.social )

My pick is Five Finger Death Punch and the obvious answer is Ivan Moody. The guy radiates that alpha-male wannabe energy and it definitely rings through all of the songs he has written and performed with this band. The guy is just a prick and a self-victimizing asshole....

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I see what you did there. Do we live in the same senior center?

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I'd get Joseph a "The dad that stepped up" mug.

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I had thought Valve might have been pre-emptive owing to the refund requests tbh.

Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ ( www.theguardian.com )

More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed.

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You just know the IT guy who restored it was like, "Y'ALL REAL QUIET WITH THAT 'WHAT DO YOU EVEN DO HERE' SHIT."

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Billboard ads? Shitty but ehh not that bad overall. In game ads over radio or video? Nah miss me on that.

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If technology wasn't an issue: Dream ads. Naked at school? Calvin Kleins got you covered.

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Arkane- I mean, yeah Redfall was a clunker but Dishonored, Deathloop, and Prey all did pretty well I thought... though I suppose the two Wolfenstein games they did were kinda trash so there is a bit of falloff between the "glory days" and now.

Tango- Hi-Fi Rush was a bop, and Ghostwire did well enough I thought. Not seeing a good reason here.

Alpha Dog - Mighty Doom? Okay thats a fair closure.

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prioritizing high-impact titles and further investing in Bethesda’s portfolio of blockbuster games

Chasing blockbusters is gonna fuck them up but I suppose more room in the lower weight classes isn't bad for gamers since it lets indies and others who aren't the big boys shine, and lord knows thats been wild over the past year'ish.

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The right reddit comment section is inundated with them. Oftentimes itll be a exact title repost with a huge number of exact comment copy bots.

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Used to mod several large subreddits on reddit then they banned me for being one of the last protest holdouts. Now I just mod c/neat on lemmy world and post shit I enjoy.

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Gonna break so fuckin many laws of physics.

perpetual motion lets fucking gooooooooo!

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I'd imagine that there's math to be done on sales for a mixed review game vs. a overwhelming positive one, and its not favorable.

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Its like responding to a Hershey Kiss being thrown at you with an entire Chocolate Rain

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...

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You tend to get two groups who dislike it. Ignorant folks who think something like no animal stuff means no protein means you shrivel up and die, and the ones who've encountered a few too many militants in their time and ain't interested or are downright sick of their schtick. Vaguely similar to atheism, except replace the animal product stuff with something religion related, ofc.

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if you think internet atheists can't be just as obnoxious as internet vegans you clearly haven't been around enough of them.

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Transphobia doesn't become cool when the target is a shitty trans person. Do better.

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I always figured rona caused a big enough surge in beards owing to WFH allowing folks to get past the scruff hump that beards could be back on the table again.

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Probably Mordum since it was

  1. Shot to look like amateur/found footage a la Blair Witch
  2. Had a dude get his dick cut off. Yeah it was special effects but they didn't do any cutaway or implied. Kept the camera on that dick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Underground%27s_Mordum

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It's Nintendo. I'm not shocked it happened... just that it took this long. Its fairly common hear about some fangame or mod via gaming news, and then two weeks later see the headline, "Legend of Mariotroid has been DMCA'd"

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Ahh yes trading freedom for safety, Ben Franklin would definitely approve. /s

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I mean, barring the whole, "Secret Police", "Microphones in the walls", and "No Freedom to even leave the country" thing, Latveria under Dr. Doom does have no poverty or famine, and apparently universal healthcare so maybe a masked leader isn't so bad...

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