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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
As someone who actually does read the rules for a bunch of places; they often have no relationship to what actually gets enforced.
This isn't just a problem for social media communities. A bunch of business use boilerplate contracts and terms-of-service that again have no relation to how they actually operate.
I had a post about dishwashers (from the Technology Connections guy) removed from the Technology community because it wasn't "on topic." I'm sorry if I missed that dishwashers have been around since the Bronze Age.
Bronze is still technology. So are stone tools, and sticks when they're used as tools.
Absolutely, and I really, really hate that. Admittedly I'm also autistic, so I probably take rules a bit more serious than many people. But still I am heavily confused by the concept that we live by laws every day which most of us never heard or read about. Especially in Germany, where I live, we have a lot of laws for everything, and 90% of them aren't really enforced, but it still is theoretically expected of me to abide by them.
Just a strange concept overall.
Also Terms and Conditions.
Yup.
I remember in late 2003, when I read the legalese bumf that came with Windows XP... very long, and painful, drudgesome, cryptic, hiding "deal with the devil clauses" (they can change the agreement after you agree), and very restrictive.
Then I read the GNU GPL v1, and other Free Software licenses.
Never went back to the abuse of proprietary licensed operating systems.
The freedom, the upfront honesty, the brevity, the simplicity, ... I thought for sure "The Year of the GNU+Linux Desktop" was sure to be the next year. ... Everybody else reads the terms and conditions... right?
Those arw like the best sites ever: https://www.tldrlegal.com/ https://tosdr.org/en I'il reae the summary and if i really feel like i'il read the whole shit
Idk about y'all but sometimes(actually, rarely, i do it more if i need it) i do read TOS/EULAs, depend how long and how much time i have though.
Most of the TOSes boil down to: “Don’t be a jerk towards us. Don’t be a jerk towards others. We don’t owe you the service. Sue us in California.” I usually skim the TOS to see if there’s something unusual.
As Louis Rossmann says, they have a rapist mentality
My favourite is when the privacy policy is behind a "do you accept our privacy policy, yes or yes" popup
Mods on Reddit: Make sure you check the "do not post" list to make sure your post is not one of the 3k listed
Dude, I swear I still have PTSD from that shithole lol
Everytime I post a meme I stare at New for almost 10 minutes waiting for it to get removed, before I remember "Oh wait, this is Lemmy"
Seen posts with -50 downvotes that still stay at the top of Hot lol, it's glorious
For claiming GMOs are bred for glyphosate resistance, which is the real reason why USDA Organic products grew significantly in the market, not because consumers actually think Organic produce is "naturally" healthier.
But this was only enforced after I pissed off the mod in Political Memes and he went backwards through my comment history to find me in another community he mods to delete another comment lol.
Still a million times better than the reddit experience.
Lemme guess, that mod's username starts with j and ends with d? Cuz that sure sounds familiar.
Surprisingly no, but I'm pretty sure he's the reason lemmy.ml has a separate world news community lol.
Literally the only mod action I can recall encountering here. Squatting on communities to control discourse like that is Reddit all over again, sadly. Still like it more, but it doesn't bode well.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I specifically find the moddng behavior over at .world to be a huge problem. It's good to have other places to go but that only reduces the big impact they make on Lemmy but so much.
Where are you all posting that have such heavy handed mods?
Reddit and Discord.
On Reddit almost every post from before 2024 has been removed (except if its porn or gore then it has been reposed 10 times, properly archived, protected from link rot and mod approved).
On Discord most servers dont keep records of who gets banned/have no appeal process.
Saturn retrograde is serious
Yep, hopefully it will align with N64 soon.
Reminds me of the community I got banned from because I didn't see the rule that said you had to source all quotes, which apparently means you have to source the quote to the person you're responding to, when you quote the comment you're responding to. Fukkin brilliant rules
Some mods are just power hungry twats
"1984"
~1984, George Orwell
It's fine that they removed my comment, but their rules don't say anything about "keeping it positive"
Besides, I'd consider wishing Trump would die to be neutral/optimistic.
Some could argue that you weren't civil with Trump.
But that is far fetched and Trump isn't civil in any conversation
I assumed wishing Trump would die was the equivalent of wishing someone a good day.
Wishing Trump would die is accepting reality that some people are inherently evil and them being alive has no value. This isn't positive, is it? It's sad as fuck.
Thought of something fun the other day. While putting away groceries in the fridge, I realized that having a nubbin or something on the bottom of the refrigerator door would be massively helpful, allowing me to manipulate the door with my foot while I have full arms/hands.
So I went to reddit 'showerthoughts', which I thought was an appropriate venue for the idea, posted aaaaaaand immediately deleted. Mod said "read the rules," and -no joke- it was like 5 pages of bullshit, wrapped in bullshit with bullshit bullet points. And despite reading it carefully, nowhere did I find the supposed rule I violated which was "to reply to your own post in the comments."
Bro, fuck your website, fuck your rules, and fuck you.
Reddit is in the end stages of an online forum. It's too big to be good now. That's why we are here. It's way better
I remember getting inspired by the "Polandball" comics, so I drew one myself. Even followed all the stylistic rules laid out on the sub and everything. But instead of just being allowed to post it you have to submit it to a mod first. And the mod rejected it because he didn't get the joke. So explained the joke to them but they still thought it didn't make sense, so I didn't get a licence to post in the end.
I understand that there are rules for the kind of stuff you want to allow but come on man...
I made a polandball, submitted to the mod, and was told the joke was overused so rejected.
It was in the vein all the other jokes currently were, hence why I went with it.
It's a shame they're so gatekeepy. I found them quite fun in the past but since my experience trying to contribute unsubbed and never looked again. Fuck them
I’m permabanned on !politics@lemmy.world because I warned someone “careful, some of the mods on here are snowflakes”
Permaban, same instance, no notification. No recourse.
If someone said: “moderator x is a removed”, guess what? It’s on the same level as that.
Wrong. You're banned because you called the mods autistic in a way that implies autism is something to be looked down upon, hence using it as a slur. So not only you tried to insult the mods, you were ableistic in doing so.
Also, it was not the firsf time you went against that sub's rules.
I can't figure out how to view the modlog on my phone but it's available isn't it?
Can anybody link to the modlog for kingofras@lemmy.world please and then we don't have to rely on "he said, she said"
Thanks CyberEgg!
Friendly reminder that this will keep getting removed here, because mods are autistic and apply rules very strictly. It needs to be published by one of Donnies mates in the main stream media (or his enemies that are threatened) before you can post it
Looks like you're full of shit, "king".
The more things change the more they stay the same.
It's pretty easy to switch instances now!
Oh weirdly enough I think I saw somebody replying to your comment! Was it quite recent? The impression they had was that you were banned for ban evasion I think, i.e. that you'd been banned before, then had come back on a new account to call the mods snowflakes.
Not sure tho, don't quote me, and I don't honestly care all that much - just saying that might be a reason, rather than what you actually said.
I'm permabanned from !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world because I got provoked into complaining about the rules in the pinned thread for discussing the rules. I never said I didn't intend to follow them anyway! Absolute bullshit power-tripping.
Somewhat unrelated to the topic, but I wonder how many younger people can recognize book encyclopedias.
that looks a bit like Reddit. I still don't understand why I got banned but I don't caree anymore: it's a way too pro american forum anyway.
This would be a good way to censor or ban anyone. Then when asked for a justification, retroactively, dig through all that and find buried somewhere some small applicable clause.
This is what some not-very-good police do in some places. Arrest someone they don't like and then dig up some ancient law still on the books that they broke on a technicality. Usually if such a thing goes to court the court strikes it down, if the justice system is remotely functional. But where's Lemmy's courts?
I got banned from a reddit group because I didn't state my post in the form of a question. Like some jeopardy shit.
