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100% agree with JokeDeity: Blood relatives =//= family. Family are the people you can trust, people you enjoy having around, people you want to have in your life.
Just because someone happens to share some DNA with you, doesn't automatically mean that they're family. You owe them nothing.
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Narcistic, gaslighting mother and dead father. I was the one running the household (including way too many pets) but my mother happily took credit for everything.
Took me almost 20 years to finally snap, when she bought yet another dog and got angry at me for not being happy about it (we had 4 dogs, 5 cats, 9 ducks, a goat, 3 guinea pigs and 2 bunnies at the time, and I was working a full-time job so "we" could pay rent). She managed to convince the rest of the family that I was the bad guy. None of them even bothered to ask for my side of the story.
I took all animals to a sanctuary (as I didn't want innocent pets to suffer because of her negliegience) except for one very old dog and the most agressive cat which I took with me (as they would have had very bad chances of finding new owners) and moved away.
NGL, it was very weird and it took me 2-3 years to acclimate, but I'm better off now. It's astounding what lots of spare time and 90% less responsibility can do for one's personal wellbeing.
I know from mutual friends that her bubble of lies has finally popped and most of my other family members refuse to talk to her now .... but the "best" part is that none of them has reached out to me yet and they're getting angry that I don't try to mend things with them "because we're still family" and since I was the one who left, they expect me to be the one to make the first step. They honestly feel like I have wronged them and need to apologize.
I am done being the "bigger person". They can rot for all I care. Leaving that situation was one of the best decisions in my life, and sometimes I honestly wonder why it even took me so long to realize that this was not a "normal" life.
Synthetic. There are a whole lot of "man made" Pokémon or ones that posess / mimic "man made" items (Porygon, Voltorb, Klink, Meltan, Bronzor, Honedge, Magnemite, Chimeco, Baltoy, Sandygast, Trubbish, Litwick, Carcol, Vanillite, Sinistea, Comfey, ....) that are currently shoehorned into other categories and not always fit properly IMHO. For example, I can understand why Rotom is an electro-Type as it is basically a sentient bolt of electricity, but why is Dhelmise a Ghost/Grass type? It's a sentient anchor but somehow not a water-steel-type? And Sigilyph is a prime example of "WTH is that even" that only got shoved into the psychic-flying niche because of its attacks. Why are blobs of whipped cream and sentient keychains "fairy"? (Alcremie, Klefki) What about Unown, which are literally letters with eyes?
If there was an "this is an item that somehow learned to move" category, it would instantly have a couple dozen prime candidates, and each new gen introduces more of them (the legendaries of the newest gen are basically motorbikes, for example)
Sorry for the confusion, but I'm not talking about the emoji - that this little wolf head appears everywhere is normal and intended. What I mean is the red icon right next to it
Very weird. Just out of curiosity, have you seen that symbol anywhere else, too? Or just in this thread?
Karma isn't the goal - clicks are. The more people (or bots) interact with the site, the more traffic is generated, and the less it looks as if reddit is dying. Spez is trying to forge engagement with/on reddit.
Even if a post gets half a million downvotes and dozens of reports, does that only mean that it generated more than half a million clicks.
(That's also the reason most clickbait is such a huge heap of bullshit. An outrageously dumb/wrong statement right in the title and lots of bullshit in the article = people get angry, leave comments, argue, share the article with likeminded people to show them how dumb/wrong it is .... and the author gets paid per click in ad revenue. The writers know they're wrong, but a factually correct article doesn't generate nearly as much traffic.)
The mod logs are public: https://lemmy.world/modlog
It doesn't matter whether a comment is "just" deleted or purged, there will still be an entry in the format "mod/admin purged/deleted X for reason Y" (if you scroll down to the "21 hours ago" mark, there is even an example for a purged thread)
Ah, goot to know. If it was something "official" then it should show up in the apps as well (I'm using the boring, ordinary browser version) so it seems likely that it is just a bug.
...and I'm also not the OP of that other comment thread ^^°
If it was part of the username, it should appear on all comments across the site. It's just that one single comment tho.
Hmmm ... maybe it's something to mark an "admin-approved answer" or something similar? That's the only thing I can think of RN.
But I am not a mod in that community ^^° so unless an actual mod / admin slammed that icon onto my comment for whatever reason, I have no idea why it is there.
That was my first instinct too, but I can't find anything about it in the mod log, where banning etc. would normally appear (the logs are public). And if I were banned, I wouldn't be able to post and comment, nor would y'all be able to see the comment, right?
I'm just at a loss.
Weird ... if it was deleted, y'all would not be able to see it, right? And I'm obviously not banned as I can still post, and neither am I an admin / mod.
PS: I can't find anything about it in the mod log either.
I am not a mod of that community tho, and the "mod icon" that does appear in the communities I moderate, looks different entirely (a green M)
No hover text either, unlike with other icons. Direct comment links don't properly work ATM, but there are only two comments on the post anyway: https://lemmy.world/post/4262270
I read about a similar situation recently ... a thread where people were joking around about NSFW stuff and someone commented "that guy must be hung" (as in "big member") and got suspended for hate speech / inciting violence because the mod apparently thought they meant "go hang that guy" (as in execute).
So yes, context matters greatly, especially when dealing with snarky comments and reactions to shitposts, where people usually aren't as serious.
https://lemmy.world/post/4139970 (similar issue)
The problem is known and it will eventually be fixed, but at the moment it is likely not high on the list of priorities compared to the image upload overhaul / cleansing.
Go for it. Even if you don't know much about science; there are other things a mod can do to improve a community. Deleting troll posts and spam and advertisements, creating and maintaining community rules, adding a nice banner and icon, featuring posts, keeping an eye on possible harassment, fix broken/decayed links ... you don't need scientific knowledge for these, and it may still help the other mods. You can leave the actually scientific discussions to the community members, as long as you manage provide a safe environment to enable these discussions ;)