Dude, "from the data he provided" is a screenshot of a concert video from Nov 9, 1998 in Stockholm Sweden which (based on a quick search and look through their website) the "REMVideoArchive" site/channel you linked hasn't uploaded. Neither was an official channel, the one you linked says in their about section that they're a fansite that archives R.E.M. footage. Don't accuse somebody of impersonating someone or stealing their work when you have zero evidence of it, that's absolutely wild that you would do that.
Yeah IMO the more famous and respected Kojima has gotten, the worse his writing has been. And I think you've hit the nail on the head, he badly needs editors. I think it's kind of like George Lucas in that they have a lot of ideas, some of which are really good and some of which are absolutely batshit. Sometimes those types of writers need someone who can ground them and tell them that they don't have to put all of their ideas in.
The Vice article was a news article that was reporting on this leak, but it didn't name any names and didn't link to the leaked database. The post in question also wasn't a beehaw post, it was a federated post from lemmy.ml. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how federation works, but I would expect lemmy.ml's mods to handle moderating those posts.
And, frankly, I'm not sure I disagree with the screenshot you posted elsewhere in this thread. I don't think it was wrong for a person to leak the IronMarch forum database a few years ago, which exposed a bunch of Atomwaffen members in the US and neo-nazis elsewhere, and I'm not sure I think it's wrong for someone to have leaked this db either.
This isn't "it's okay to dox people you disagree with" or calling people with different political opinions nazis. These are actual nazis.
Honestly, I understand the reaction. I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but I have seen a number of times on beehaw and constantly on other lemmy instances situations where someone will post something cool that they did, and the comments are all complaining about the poster not using FOSS software to do that thing. I understand that Lemmy is very popular with FOSS communities but sometimes people just want to make a thing and they don't want to spend all of their time wrestling with the tool they use to make it. I'm sympathetic with the idea of FOSS, but sometimes the gatekeeping is very off-putting.
And, FWIW I believe that Google Maps exports to KMZ/KML which are open standards for geospatial data.
@Scary_le_Poo and @jarfil: if the two of you have a disagreement on another thread, please work it out between the two of you like adults there; don't spill it over into other, unrelated threads.
@Scary_le_Poo, these types of personal attacks are not acceptable on beehaw. It is possible to disagree while still being kind and without resorting to angry or abusive language. Please try to remember beehaw's guiding principal when interacting with others in the future.
Hi, can you clarify what you mean or provide a source? I'm not away of any widespread examples of this but it could be that I'm misunderstanding or misremembering.
I've been playing Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria with a group of friends. It's pretty janky at times, but the vibe is pretty fun and we're all LotR nerds to some degree, so it's been fun arguing about where the devs were lore friendly and where they colored outside the lines. It's also nice to play a survival crafting game like this that has no PvP so the balancing can be entirely based on PvE play, which means the grind isn't anywhere near the level of Ark or Conan. I'd say it's a more janky little brother of Grounded with a LotR coat of paint and some pretty cool level design.
Hi @lolcatnip, we have one rule on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. If you disagree with another user feel free to express why, but low effort, drive-by insults aren't really in the spirit of this instance.
Hey, !technology mod here. We mostly get tech news and articles, but personally I have no issues with questions or self posts that promote discussion. Some communities do have more guidelines about how and what to post but !technology is fairly lax as long as the post is tech related and not spammy.
All that to say, please feel welcome to post your question there and see what folks recommend.
Hi @Leafeytea - I've removed this comment because a lot of folks are reading it as threatening toward Meta employees. I don't want to assume that's your intention, though. If you'd like, shoot me a DM or reply here and I will restore the comment if you would like to edit it to clarify what you meant.
Mod tools weren't a priority the last time we heard anything from the Lemmy devs about it. It's possible that has changed since then but I doubt it.
We have had a few people from beehaw working on contributing some things, but from what I have gathered (as someone who isn't a software engineer) the lemmy codebase is very difficult to work with.
I can pretty much guarantee that on beehaw at least, at least one mod will look at any report. As far as what the mod action would be, I think it would depend on the situation. For misinformation that is deceptive and harmful in some way, we have and likely would continue to remove it. For something that is not intending to be deceptive and/or isn't actively harmful, I think I would be more inclined to leave it up and leave it to the community to hash out in the comments. For example, I'd be likely to remove disinfo about Covid vaccines or conspiracy theories about 5g or something, but I probably wouldn't remove a post just because somebody called Linux an OS instead of "GNU plus Linux" or something. But that's just how I would tend to treat this sort of thing. For most mod actions that aren't straightforward, we tend to try and discuss them and get multiple perspectives.
The unfortunate reality of headlines is that, frequently, the author of the article has little or no control over them. Generally an editor will be writing a headline for maximum punch and clickability, and very frequently you will find articles with deceptive or clickbait-y headlines where the article is much better quality.
Hi - Beehaw mod here - we very much give a shit. We try to stay on top of things as much as we can, but we're all volunteers with lots of other things going on, and !Technology is our most active community. If you see something that you feel needs attention, please report it with an explanation in the report reason so that we can take a look at it. We don't always take action, but we always look at and evaluate user reports.
Hi, if you see any examples of this, please report them. I can't promise that we'll always take action, but we do try to. The mods here are all volunteers and don't always have the ability to pick up on this type of thing - we rely on reports to draw our attention to things that might need action on our part.
Another difficulty is that Lemmy offers a very limited set of tools when it comes to something like this. I can't tag or flair an article as having a deceptive headline - there's no tag/flair feature. Mods can't edit post titles, and we can't even sticky a comment within a post; only posts can be stickied. Our only tools are commenting or messaging the OP asking them to change the title (and if it's a federated post there no guarantee that the edit would federate in a reasonable amount of time, if ever) or remove the post. Often when we get reports there is already a good discussion in the comments about why the headline is bad, and personally I am always reluctant to remove posts that have good, ongoing discussion in them (as long as no one is being harmed anyway).
In the end of the day I agree that we should moderate titles more. I think we ought to moderate a few things more closely. But Beehaw's mods are just normal users who, in their spare time, do their best to try and keep things nice. In particular, !Technology is our largest and most active community, and it is essentially impossible for us to stay on top of every post and evaluate it for accuracy, even if we might like to.
Sorry for the early morning ramble. I'm not disagreeing at all with your comment, just trying to give some perspective on why it might be a bigger ask than you realize.
I think you might need to take a break and cool off. You're all over this thread getting way too heated for a discussion about a search engine. Please keep in mind Beehaw's guiding principal and Be Nice.
Hmm. On the beehaw side there is a link to the main propublica site, but the title is also a link directly to the article. It's probably the usual lemmy/kbin oddness.
Dude, "from the data he provided" is a screenshot of a concert video from Nov 9, 1998 in Stockholm Sweden which (based on a quick search and look through their website) the "REMVideoArchive" site/channel you linked hasn't uploaded. Neither was an official channel, the one you linked says in their about section that they're a fansite that archives R.E.M. footage. Don't accuse somebody of impersonating someone or stealing their work when you have zero evidence of it, that's absolutely wild that you would do that.