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Its your fault you didint know about the "no posts on alternating Saturdays while Saturn is in retrograde" rule (reddthat.com)
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[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 73 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Bronze is still technology. So are stone tools, and sticks when they're used as tools.

[–] greencactus@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

There are a lot of cases where rules are a bit too strict, and it's expected you might violate them where they don't make sense - though if you do, you might be putting yourself at risk, and if something happens, the rule might protect anyone else involved.

But what pisses me off is that speed limits are consistently ignored. People might get mad at you for driving the speed limit. Either the limits are set stupidly low and need to be changed, or society needs to get its shit together and stop endangering people. Probably both.

[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

There's been experiments around changing speed limits. What they found is that people consistently speed by about a constant amount over the posted limit, so they keep the posted limit lower, and have all enforcement be at around 10mph over it.

Yay path dependence!

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 47 points 5 days ago

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] admin@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago

"1984"

~1984, George Orwell

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Lemme guess, that mod's username starts with j and ends with d? Cuz that sure sounds familiar.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Surprisingly no, but I'm pretty sure he's the reason lemmy.ml has a separate world news community lol.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Some could argue that you weren't civil with Trump.

But that is far fetched and Trump isn't civil in any conversation

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I assumed wishing Trump would die was the equivalent of wishing someone a good day.

[–] Potatar@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] XM34@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

The day that monster finally dies should be an international holiday. But then again, I don't think he deserves that honour!

[–] borQue@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Mods on Reddit: Make sure you check the "do not post" list to make sure your post is not one of the 3k listed

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Also Terms and Conditions.

[–] Digit@piefed.social 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

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?

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] lena 9 points 5 days ago

As Louis Rossmann says, they have a rapist mentality

[–] TheLazyNerd@europe.pub 2 points 4 days ago

I read the terms and Conditions for Windows 10. It was clear that the person who wrote that had neither understanding of writing Terms and Conditions nor understanding of software. It was only later that I realized most laws are also written by people that neither know how to write laws nor understand the topic that law applies to.

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] bestelbus22@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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...

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] bestelbus22@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

We could start our own polandball here! With blackjack! And hookers!

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

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

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Where are you all posting that have such heavy handed mods?

[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 7 points 4 days ago

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.

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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I got banned from a reddit group because I didn't state my post in the form of a question. Like some jeopardy shit.

[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

oh yeah I got a post removed for the same reason so I just started adding question marks even when it made no scene?

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (10 children)

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.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

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.

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[–] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The more things change the more they stay the same.

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[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

Cum gutters.

[–] notreallyhere@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Saturn retrograde is serious

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 9 points 5 days ago

Yep, hopefully it will align with N64 soon.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 days ago (5 children)

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?

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