Pretty much. I'm not sure I totally buy into that it's much of an increase though. Or people would be dropping like flies.
I think the bigger issues is just being generally overweight. The percentage of overweight people is crazy, regardless of their jobs.
I'm 55 and not to be an old man and say "in the old days", but in the old days, when I was growing up. I knew ONE overweight person. Yeah, just one. It just wasn't common. Look at pics from the 1970's, and you just won't see a whole lot of overweight people.
Now? Everywhere I look. I'm sure more office workers have added to that, but that doesn't account for everyone.
I work in an elementary school. And I was sitting at lunch just looking around and thinking about it. Teachers are actually pretty active. Lots of walking around the classroom. Very little sit down time in an elementary school.
Me and two others are fit. Rest are all overweight. How did this happen?!
Ok, rant over. Just got me to thinking. :)
Really? And here I am trying to figure out how to live forever!
No, don't do that. Stress is bad for the heart too! lol
We need this in my city. I recently got a very inexpensive e-bike and it will be perfect for this. But they are just now putting in decent bike lanes here. And the drivers here pretty much hate on bikes pretty regularly. lol
This is exactly why I am so frustrated that my youth was spent on girls, drinking, fucking off, and avoiding anything to do with all authority.
That lifestyle is behind me, and I want to do all this cool stuff, but lack the skills and the income to pull it off.
But this article has inspired me to really jump into a whole new DIY thing. Love the mindset and innovation for this. Thanks for this post!
Just curious, and not to beat a dead horse, but if Lemmy can give us notifications that comments are removed, why can't it do a simple ban notification as well?
Because I always get notified when a post or comment has been removed.
Seems simple enough make the removal notification that led to banning something as simple as "Your comment has been removed for xxxx reason. And now you are banned from the community due to reasons xxxxx."
I realize that my particular situation here has been resolved and we can move on, but I'm just curious if the lack of banning notifications is a software issue or if it's a philosophical issue for Lemmy and the fediverse.
Fuck universal, that’s not the issue.
Hey now! lol
But yeah, to your point, I agree that any bots that ban, also need to notify. Especially since it's a bot, and it's automated, so it's not like it would be much harder to do than the auto-banning. And I don't routinely check modlogs before I post to a community.
This particular bot--if I understand correctly--auto bans based on someone's downvotes, not necessarily on content. Even if those downvotes happened on another instance. Which to me, seems even worse, because some people can be right, even tho downvoted.
The issue started because I had no idea I was banned, and I accidentally posted to the community.
Apparently, it banned my same username from another instance that I was on. My time on that instance was pre-election, so in the weeks leading to it, Lemmy was quite um, passionate about downvoting anyone who wasn't openly supporting Harris.
But I haven't been controversial or posted any controversial content from this slrpnk instance. And I do not have the same downvote ratio on this instance because I stay away from politics here--except for the post to his community. Which was about Bernie Sanders--who I adore.
But the username thing may be an issue in the future too, because some people's usernames are generic enough that that as we grow bigger, duplicates may be used unintentionally on different instances.
So banning based on downvotes of a user name on different instances, without reading content, seems problematic to me.
I have no problem with him running it in his community tho. His community, his rules, but the noise started because I had no idea what was going on until he posted this here.
But I definitely got the point, and won't be posting to his community in the future.
I hope that there won't be many communities doing the same sort of bot modding though.
"Unsalted Counter Info." That is a great freakin' name. I wish I would have known about them when I lived in the midwest. That would have been cool to be a part of when I was growing up.
And I didn't even know the zine world was still a thing. I have a whole new rabbit hole to fall down now.
Part of the point of the violation here is that, if someone’s already blocked your name, they now have to do it again for three new accounts, until you make more beyond those three.
Which takes two seconds. I know because I've blocked several people. It's not that difficult and I think site-wide banning because of opinions you don't like is bad form. Avoiding that is the entire point of the fediverse.
But like I said, you and I have resolved our issues. We can move on.
Modlog, search for “harassing.”
And no examples. I still have no clue what they determined to be harassing. I got many nasty dm's and would reply in kind, but I don't see how that is harassing. Plus I'm quite aware that DM's aren't private. But again, their instance and their rules.
Not for your behavior on the previous instances exactly, but for starting up the same behavior from new accounts since you’d already been banned for it, which is against the rules.
Which we have already discussed wasn't done on this instance, in your community or any other instance. It's again, your assumption.
Really, let's just end it here. You obviously think I'm a troll. I disagree. That's ok. Let's agree to disagree.
I won't be posting to your community, now I know how your bot works, and we can just move on. Thank you.
I think some of it was for DM harrassment or posting fan fiction about other people on Lemmy.
Again, assumption. And no, none of that ever happened. Think about it, if that happened and I am so hated, wouldn't there be ample evidence and screen shots about that? People on that instance hated me with a passion! And I gave you links to the mod log of that community.
And the "fan fiction" wasn't fan fiction at all. I don't even know where that term came from. lol
I created a community of creepy pulpy horror tales that tie into Lemmy. I have no idea why anyone would say it was fan fiction or anything of the sort.
It was me writing fun pulpy horror tales. NONE of it was about anyone specific on Lemmy. I parodied the ATTITUDES of Lemmy. Here's the link to the community: https://sh.itjust.works/c/talesfromthecrypticlemmy
Your participation in previous politics communities was incredibly obnoxious.
Which has nothing to do with your community or this instance. People can easily block my name and never see or hear me ever again.
I’m not trying to be mean about it, and I’m not upset or anything.
Good to know, maybe I missed the tone in your text. I def took it as you were trying to ban me from this instance, lemm.ee, and sh.itjust.works because of what you thought of my previous behavior on an instance that I was banned from weeks ago. Since you are writing to all of the admins there.
If you’re interested in changing how you contribute so that you’re a net positive to the community, let’s talk.
I have already started a community on here. And I may switch my Tales from the Crytpic Lemmy to here as well. Especially after this conversation. And since I am finishing up a horror tale involving a solar power relay.
But again, I won't be posting to your community, mainly because of all this drama that happened.
I wish no ill will towards you. I think you have a great community idea. After this experience, I can not say I support your robotic mod though. I doubt I will be the first confused person to run afoul of it.
But I do wish you the best of luck with it.