Drusas

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Drusas,

It's a boon even for the mildly or moderately disabled, but truly a godsend for the significantly disabled. Sucks that it costs more and sometimes you get some stupid replacements, but so it goes.

Drusas, (edited )

Today I ordered six mini bottles (I guess 10 oz each?) of club soda. They were out, so the shopper brought me four large bottles of club soda (maybe 38 oz each?).

Apparently I need to drink a lot of mojitos.

Drusas, (edited )

If you pull up the magazine info page (so far I've been using mobile, where you click the hamburger icon in the top left for that), there should be a big button directly above the magazine's name that says 'Magazine Panel'. When you click that, you'll see a few different tabs up top with moderation tools such as viewing reports.

...or, such as in my current case, you might not. But you should.

Drusas,

Well, hopefully this will get some attention from more experienced users or devs and we can get it figured out.

Drusas, (edited )

But the magazine panel isn't available to begin with.

Edit: Okay. It appears that there is no way through the UI to access those admin tools as a moderator and not the owner. If you actually input the URL directly, you can view reports.

If that is the case and working as expected for the time being, how are there no issues open in codeberg to have it fixed? This can't possibly be the intended design, even keeping in mind that the fediverse is still new.

Drusas,

Your #3 is a really good point. If someone posts their opinion in the body, there are likely to be downvotes based on that opinion even when the article has its own merits.

Drusas,

I would like to see more discussion around handling misinformation. The lines between misinformation, trolling, and someone being genuinely incorrect (which is still misinformation) can be blurry.

However, I personally believe that spreading misinformation is more dangerous than regular trolling. Of course, it can require research to determine whether or not something is mis/disinformation. Obviously this is a complicated subject and other social media platforms haven't even figured it out yet.

Drusas,

This sort of question is why this thread was created. I'm in favor of a zero tolerance policy for fascism, bigotry, and anything that is clearly misinformation. But that's my personal opinion and we'll all be working together to decide on what the community wants and what works best. Rules can also be altered as we grow, of course, if our initial guidelines aren't sufficient.

Drusas,

I've found that some sites have much higher quality opinion pieces than others. For example, opinion pieces on Politico and even MSNBC tend to have a lot of factual back information included for the reader. Do we want to allow those sorts of articles?

Drusas,

It's so hard to say.

Something which is demonstrably factually incorrect, which tends to be more in the scientific domain than the political domain, I'm personally in favor of removing so that the misinformation doesn't spread. However, I also see a lot of value in allowing it to remain and be corrected, especially when it's not something that can harm people (e.g., "vaccines will make you autistic and kill you!"). But then, what if it remains and nobody bothers to correct it?

I'm looking right now, as another example, at a comment which is trying to factually state that both Joe Biden and Hunter Biden are pedophiles, with nothing to back this up. I would consider it trolling in that case, but there are definitely going to be instances where it's harder to distinguish. And of course, there will always be the crazies who believe utter nonsense.

I'd like to know more about the community's thoughts before we try to tackle that.

Drusas,

Thanks for sharing that bit about italics. I hadn't realized and have been using italics myself. Do you know if bolding is working properly?

Drusas,

I don't disagree, based on the harm that is being done. You may see me comment in that regard, but if moderation rules end up being more lenient than I am personally, based on feedback, that's what I'll do as a moderator. It's about what the community wants and needs in order for genuine discussion to thrive.

Drusas,

This is a minor point, but I would also suggest not allowing any threads or posts with all capital headlines.

Drusas,

Didn't Macron's wife and children have some guy shoot a firework at them?

Drusas,

Apparently so.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66079408

The attackers used a car to ram through the gates of their home before setting the vehicle on fire so that the blaze would spread to the house, the mayor said in a statement.

Then when his wife, Melanie Nowak, tried to flee with the children, aged five and seven, they were attacked with firework rockets.

I also came across an article saying somebody shot a firework at his helicopter the other day. I can see him being a little wary of fireworks at the moment.

Drusas,

This could also impact women who have already given up certain assets in exchange for permanent alimony.

Drusas,

That sounds really cool and unique. If you're interested in joining another book community, you should share a quick review of that with us on m/horrorliterature. Trying to gather us horror fans together!

Drusas,

I just finished The Witcher books yesterday. They don't have the same depth and mystery of the Dark Tower, but they are a fun read.

Drusas,

It's one of only a few books of his where I actually loved the ending (well, not those last few pages, but the ending before them, if you know what I mean). Usually I think his endings are pretty underwhelming at best.

Drusas,

I just finished the Witcher books yesterday and haven't started the next one yet, but it is already out and ready to go.

Next is The Croning by Laird Barron. He writes cosmic horror. I can't review it yet, but I've enjoyed the couple of his works that I've read in the past.

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Don't get me wrong--I understand your frustration. My favorite King book, perhaps aside from The Dark Tower series, is The Stand. Of all the books I've ever read, it also has one of the most disappointing endings. I just liked the rest of the book enough to overlook it.

Drusas,

It always blows my mind that you can be in Texas in zone 8b and I can be in Washington in zone 8b.

Drusas,

Where are you getting sriracha these days? They haven't been able to produce any product for such a long time now that some restaurants which typically have sriracha sauces don't even have them anymore.

Drusas,

Ah, gotcha. I haven't tried any of the knockoffs yet. I still have one of the huge bottles, fortunately for me. To be honest, I have heard nothing but bad things about the knockoffs.

Drusas,

Not so fun fact (because it's obnoxious): Peking and Beijing are pronounced the same. Beijing.

Drusas,

It's often eaten this way.

Drusas,

My Chinese friends always pronounced it like an English 'B'. It might be regional.

Drusas,

While all that is true, it leaves out the history of transcribing Chinese into English. Until pinyin was introduced in the '70s, Mandarin transcriptions also used the "pe" transcription.

Drusas,

Humans can't entirely replicate one another's voices. I recognize voices far better than faces, and I know I'm not the only one out there who does so. There are a lot of good imitators out there, but they can't replicate another voice.

Drusas,

As others have said, they are basically cultists. Cultists are people who have been taken advantage of for their naivety and can be saved.

Drusas,

Danny Trejo

Drusas,

I haven't seen much activity, but some of us are here!

These researchers are reimagining animal behavior through a feminist lens (www.sciencenews.org)

So Kamath went to Florida, where she identified individual anoles and tracked their movements day in, day out. Kamath studied the anoles “in a larger area, in a longer period of time than anyone else had ever done,” says Losos, who is now at Washington University in St. Louis. But instead of revealing territorial...

Drusas,

"Feminist" here means looking critically at the unconscious biases of researchers, who have traditionally been mostly heteronormative white males.

Kamath has adopted a feminist approach to science, which critically examines not only how women and gender minorities have been excluded from science, but also how sexist and gendered ideas have influenced the questions scientists ask and how they frame the results of their work — whether they know it or not.

Drusas,

I don't have experience moderating political subs, but I am online a lot and I can help. Especially for something simple like dealing with trolls and bad faith actors.

Drusas,

That is definitely the sort of thing I can commit to.

Drusas,

Conventions are planned a year+ out. It's entirely possible that they don't want to hold it in Florida but it was too late to switch.

Drusas,

Not to mention that trans people have no safe option for using public restrooms in Florida. They could get harassed or arrested for using the one that matches their birth sex (because they don't look like that sex anymore) and for using the one that matches their gender (because oh god penises).

Drusas,

Not everyone has an Instagram account.

Drusas,

This is why the class should be publicly funded and free for the student.

Drusas,

I don't know how people can live like that. I start sweating at 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

Drusas,

In poor taste but also kind of funny.

Since kbin's maintenance earlier, I haven't been able to view magazine info in order to subscribe, unsubscribe, or block. Was there a change or is this a bug? (kbin.social)

When I click (on mobile) on the kbin logo, it used to pull up information about the magazine/community, which had options such as subscribing and blocking. Now it just brings me to kbin.social.

Drusas,

Update: This resolved itself. Or more likely, a dev resolved it.

Drusas,

Ignoring the religious elements, this is factually incorrect. Nobody likes to talk about it, but it's common for pre-pubescent girls to masturbate. George Carlin even had a bit about it!

Now, that's generally not talked about for good reasons--we don't want to rile up the pedophiles, and we don't want to rile up the people who are so aggressively religious that they can't acknowledge biology. But the fact of the matter is that people don't become sexual the instant they reach their country's age of consent or the instant they get married.

There's nothing wrong with you disliking those facts, but they are what they are.

Drusas,

I had my first real crush on a celebrity with sexual feelings associated when I was 8 or 9 years old. I've heard similar stories from others first hand. It's normal.

Drusas,

I'm a few weeks late in replying to your comment, but we didn't have moderation when you posted this. A few of us have just started moderating, literally today, so please give us a bit to catch up.

Please check out the stickied thread about what kind of rules and guidelines you would like to see, if you haven't already. We don't have those guidelines to work with yet, but blatant bigotry, trolling, and spamming are our first targets while we work out the details.

Drusas,

I do not. I didn't mention puberty and neither did you.

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