scrubbles

joined 2 years ago

It was a pain to get up and running, but now that it is i actually prefer it. OSS aside there are things I like, like editions/versions are all kind of merged, more customization of the appearance, more performant. I'm pretty happy. Granted it was months of reorganizing my media for it.

Yes, but they're still sending emails to people even when it doesn't apply. I had a Plex pass and still all of my users received emails and freaked out. They're trying to trick people into thinking they need to pay, that's the asshole move here.

Happy to have you! There are dozens plus one now!

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think you're thinking of MIT though, the commenter was pointing out that AGPL is a license specifically made to do what you want - that people can use it in other open projects, but companies can't use it in their for profit private software.

That's actually exactly what I do. I score each one based on their upvote/downvote ratio and from that I can tell if I should ban them. It's a very forgiving ratio, I don't want to discourage down voting, but if you do all or mostly down voting then you aren't contributing. On top of that I agree, if you don't like it then you should welcome a ban.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's mostly All browsers who see her and immediately hit the downvote button.

I do, I have some math that determines how much they downvote vs upvote. I allow downvotes, but if you don't provide anything positive to the community then I ban them from it.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 25 points 2 months ago (9 children)

It's a hard pill as a mod but you have to swallow it. People are going to do things you don't like and say things you don't like. You have to be okay with that. You will not get an echochamber of people who agree with you 100%. The choice is you can either become okay with that and apply some rules that are reasonable - or you can remove everything you disagree with pushing people away.

Look at me. I run a few communities here (and a few elsewhere), but one of them here is !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech . I personally am a swiftie and there are dozens of us here on the fediverse. That being said, if I banned anyone for simply downvoting a post or saying something negative about her then I'd have to defederate every instance there is. Instead, I can let my own users do that for me and let people get downvoted to hell in the community, and sometimes out of those bad comments comes some real good discussion. If anything actually comes out that is against the rules, like true hate or bigotry or personal attacks then sure thing I'll swoop in and remove it, but even for a Swiftie community in the least likely space, that happens extremely infrequently.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They got a lot of flack for attempting to subvert free speech, and Kimmel was announced to come back. What a great distraction to have to move the media off of all of that and have it quickly forgotten.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 20 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Even if the mod was too intense, it's sad to see communities go when they have a following. Can they be revived with their communities intact to continue on under new leadership?

tends to get in the way of profit.

Double whammy. First, calling people out for such a small thing, if it even arguably is a thing, is purely performative. Calling them out for this only alienates them from the cause and makes this person feel smug. In the grand scheme I'd argue it hurts the cause more because you just pissed off a bunch of people by doing it.

Second, as an admin I can see voted, but I would never be so petty to use it like this. I do aggregations to see who routinely downvoted my posts or communities to prevent trolling, but I have a very forgiving ratio. (Like if you downvote more than X ratio more than you upvote, then why are you even in my community if you hate it so much). Anything this small is just petty.

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