It seems reddit really will use crypto trading for it's icons and awards
The decay is already very noticable in some subs. The one I frequented most for example.....wow, what a shitshow that turned into. It was once a place where moderators nuked bot accounts and karma farmers within an hour or so, content was interesting / helpful with only a random meme here and there, guides that were actually based on proper sources instead of "dude trust me", art that was properly credited .... of course there were also occasionally some low-grade posts, but those were seldom upvoted. Last time I checked you couldn't find a single actually worthwile thing buried under the sheer amount of shitposts, Karma Farming reposts, obvious bot accounts and T-shirt scammers, almost all of them upvoted by the thousands. I couldn't stand to look at it for more than a minute and haven't opened reddit ever since.
NGL, it does hurt a bit to see that sub I once loved turn into a dumpster fire, but on the flip side I'm glad that I jumped ship before it happened. I honestly like it better here.
As an authentic people, I can confirm that u/schwim / Schwim Dandy is an authentic people as well. How anyone can think that we're not authentic people when we're doing human activities all the time, like having emotions and [Error: human_activity_48.txt Not Found] is something I can not comprehend.
Oh I'm well aware that he doesn't care aboutt he content or its creators - he made that clear with his reaction to the protests. But redditors care whether or not the site they're visiting has answers to their questions, funny memes, guides, advice, interesting stories, stunning art etc. and if that goes away, redditors don't have a reason to visit reddit, and that in turn hurts the ad revenue. Less content, less clicks, less cash for u/spez, fewer investors interested in the "dumpster fire formerly known as reddit".
I can't speak for everyone else, but to me personally, it's because I'm not okay with u/spez making cash with my years of unpaid volunteer work while simultaneously spitting in the face of every content creator and half the userbase. NGL, It sucks that this action hurts the community the most, as redditors now no longer have access to the removed content, but "just leaving" while the content remains intact and public means that u/spez can just shrug it off and continue the shitshow undisturbed. He didn't get the hint during the blackout - maybe he'll get the hint once the site is exclusively filled with trolls, bots and scammers and devoid of actually interesting stuff.
Long story short, a website is only as interesting as the content it offers, and if you take the content away, you remove the incentive for people to visit said site.
Just when you think the dumpster fire can't possibly burn any brighter, u/spez comes running with a barrel of gasoline.
Rejecteddit - as that's what a good chunk of the former userbase has done by now.
It is definitely shady, but allegedly legal as long as you don't claim that the former price was higher. The advertisement itself "just" states what the current price is, which is not a lie.
Still totally scummy IMHO.
Actually, you don't even need to change the price to get customers to buy something "on sale". The supermarket I've worked in for a couple of years regularily advertised a certain brand of soft ice cream this way (not going to say any names here). "Only 2,99€ this week" (without comparing that price to anything in particular) and people bought that stuff en masse, even tho that was the exact same price as the week before, and the same price again after the "sale". The only thing that changed during the "sale" week was the color of the price tag.
Laws regarding these types of advertising only work if customers actually compare prices, and most just don't do that.
I sure hope you all are throwing a few bucks per month their way!
Is there a donation link?
and everything goes smoothly and nobody really notices
Exactly this. In the sub I frequented the most, we had a huge problem with T-shirt scammers and Karma Farming repost bots, but the mods usually nuked those pretty fast. However, since we're all busy adults with limited spare time, the mods can not be online and vigilant 24/7 and occasionally a bot or scammer slipped through the cracks.
I wasn't a mod (didn't want to, TBH) but always openly called these out in addition to reporting them, just to make sure noone clicked on the scam links until an actual mod was able to remove the post. In these situations it happened quite often that people started to argue with me, demanded to know why I thought that "totally harmless guy showing off a cool shirt" was a scammer and the like, simply because THEY had never ever seen a scam attempt in the sub before - as those posts were usually removed pretty quickly ...
Beat me by fifteen minutes, lol. I was going to type something very similar.
Moderators should feel responsible for providing a safe space and enjoyable experience for the visitors and subscribers of their community. It's ungrateful work, but someone has to do it. Power trippers who just want to be in charge of something are rarely good mods.
My way:
- Upvote: neutral / friendly contributions related to the topic, regardless of whether or not I personally agree (Exception; hate speech wrapped in nice words. I don't care how "friendly" the sentence seems, if the message itself is hate speech of any kind then downvote and/or report)
- Nothing: Contributions that are friendly but off-topic, accidental duplicate posts, and stuff I don't understand.
- Downvote: Spam, scams, troll posts and hate speech of any kind.
I never downvote people just because I disagree. On the contrary - different opinions but discussed in a civilized manner, that's an upvote from me.
Personally I think it's even the opposite. What Lemmy needs is more interesting content and interaction, whether it's "niche" or not, and making content more visible to others spreads awareness so to speak. Deliberately holding back your own interests just because it could inconvenience someone else on the internet IF they sort their feed in a specific way ... that's counter-productive both for the site as a whole and your own spare time / interests in particular. Just subscribe to whatever community you want.
Especially if it's something niche that would not get much traffic otherwise.
I regret deletng it a bit too early but I don't regret the deleting itself.
Even tho I spent a week manually deleting comments and posts and then also used a program that allegedly deletes everything on an account, I am still able to google a couple of my older comments. They're no longer attributed to me (it says [deleted] as the name) but the content itself is still visible to anyone ... and I wanted to leave nothing of value on that site. But since the account is deleted now, can no longer manually nuke the leftover comments, which irks me a bit.
I have to admit, I did feel a bit nostalgic at one point after leaving, but just looking at the "front page" of my ex-main-sub for half a minute fixed that pretty quickly. I've legit never seen so many lazy shitposts in that sub at once, and everything that wasn't a lazy shitpost was a post complaining about said shitposts, and the only two posts that were neither a shitpost nor a cmplaint, were super obvious Karma farming bots stealing content from the "top of all time" section. Total dumpster fire.
Long story short, I like it better here.
Honest answer: the official reason for that is the voice acting. It would be weird for characters to call him "Link" in cutscenes while the subtitles say Poopo.
...inofficially, that isn't an excuse IMHO as there are easy workarounds. Dragon Quest VIII for example had LOTS of voice acting even outside of prerendered cutscenes, but most NPCs had nicknames for the hero. The subtitle might have read "Hey Poopo, how are you?" but the actually spoken line was something like "Hey, my boy, how are you?" ...and then there is of course the option to just leave that part out entirely and just say "Hey, how are you?" without changing the subtitle. It wouldn't have mattered what the player called their avatar then.
"No, you don't. No, just nibbling a bit is not okay either. Don't even lick it! Oi, what do you have in your mouth!? Bad boy!" cue to Revali's ancestor dousing the Goron Champion with a big spray bottle
The dumpster fire has reached a critical level of stupidity now, if someone would use that same stuff for a comic villain it would be dismissed as too far-fetched and unrealistic. Maybe he and ol' Muskie have a bet who can ruin their platform faster?