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That should be my choice, not theirs. I should at least be able to opt into having useful information directly in the email!

Escher used a lot of repeating patterns. This is more like a Picasso.

You can do anything at zombo com! Anything at all! The only limit is yourself!

Subject: your billing statement is now available

Body: Log on to our website because we couldn't possibly JUST FUCKING TELL YOU HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY OR WHATEVER YOU USED THIS MONTH DIRECTLY IN THE E-MAIL; no, we've got to play fucking games and make you do extra work and stop you from automatically having a record of your shit without having to deliberately log on to the platform we control and download them individually with 30 seconds worth of clicking between each one.

WTF is even the point of the email if there's NO USEFUL INFORMATION IN IT?!

You came after me first. I'm just defending myself from your abusive attitude.

"If you don't want responsibility, don't take on responsibility" is not an unreasonable position. Cut your condescending crap.

What "my behavior?* Which "behavior?" Gently recommending that poVoq/Kris get some more help? 'Cause that's the only thing I did! My other comment was directed at your stupid hot take, not him.

I don't know what you think you're bitching about, but whatever it is you misinterpreted it out of thin air.

All I'm saying is, if you don't want to have a responsibility to the community, don't set yourself up for people to rely on you. That's your choice to take on that commitment -- but once you've made that choice that's what it is, a commitment.

Just to be clear, I'm not mad at poVoq/Kris, who has a very reasonable attitude about the situation. My initial comment giving feedback to him was very mild.

But no, this attitude of people like @ayyy@sh.itjust.works and you (@tfm@europe.pub), that instance admins can just let a bunch of people sign up and a bunch of communities to be created and then just shut it off without warning if they want, and that's perfectly A-OK and 100% ethical to do, is bullshit and absolutely deserves to be pushed back on!

It's a service used by the public.

If it were just a single-member instance that hosted no communities it'd be one thing, but slrpnk has some decently-important stuff on it. That creates some amount of responsibility on the admin's part even if he isn't getting paid for it.

Exactly, which is why designing the language to allow it is incompetence.

https://lemmy.world/post/30801261

the programming language that had a stated design goal to do its best and try to keep running scripts that make no sense...

...itself makes no sense. It is wrong and bad that Javascript was ever designed that way in the first place.

It is 'comprehensible' in the sense that it's possible to figure out how it happened, but it absolutely does not "make sense" in terms of being a reasonable language design decision. It's 100% incompetence on the part of the person who created Javascript.

We need to bring back meta-moderation, kind of like Slashdot had.