A_Very_Big_Fan

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Damn, they really missed their chance lol

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm saying our moderation isn't changing. Like, the rules page is word for word the same as it was in LBZ. We're still not tolerating MAGA shit, transphobes, tankie shit, etc.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I really don't mean any ill will!

As moss said, this is ideological differences in how low grade transphobia and queerphobia should be dealt with. moss is ok with community pushback for the low grade stuff rather than moderation, whereas I'll just remove it.

I agree, and that's all I'm trying to say. I didn't mean for any of that to be rude, but a lot of people are demanding an explanation and I'm just trying to be honest. We disagree about how to handle moderation and that's fine, I'm not trying to paint you as a bad mod.

And I'm sorry about not having an LBZ mod, I wasn't aware that we needed one. Federated communities are a new thing for me and I'm still learning.

I understand it may not seem like it, but we truly don't mean any ill will. There is none on our part, and I hope the same is true for you.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's valid! But we are confident that we'll be able to stay on top of things. If there were any doubts, we wouldn't have made the switch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Tbf I did try to bring it up a while ago but it upset Ada for some reason, even though I'm fairly certain I didn't say anything we weren't on the same page about... So I removed it.

You're right, though, we should have said something first. That's our bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

https://lemmy.world/comment/14554947

And if someone says or implies women owe them sex, that's not a "respectful disagreement" and would earn them a ban. I just don't think that's what he was saying.

mods

Keep in mind I'm just one mod. The other 7 are a lot less forgiving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I misremembered that incident, the person who wrote that wasn't the one who got banned (well, they probably did but that's not what the other mod was talking about). It was another comment that was basically just recapping what everyone had said. That's my bad for not fully reading my own screenshot, I was just looking for a quick example. Here's a better one.

The other mods are a lot harsher on that stuff, though, so I don't think you have to worry about it. I'm only one of 8 mods. Don't get me wrong though, I don't agree with the guy, and I know it smells like incel shit, but as long as he's not saying they owe him sex I think it's whatever. If celibacy is a deal breaker for him, that's his prerogative. Or if he thinks the plan will have blowback, then that's his opinion. But I'm 99% sure the other mods would have removed it or banned the guy anyways if Ada didn't, so take that for what it's worth ig.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

If the premise of the disagreement is that your gender is invalid, then I don't consider that respectful regardless of how polite they're being.

Lemmy as a whole is pretty far left-leaning so I don't expect it to be an issue... but if we do start getting more of that stuff, the punishment will be the same as it has been (a ban).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They rescinded that statement, which I think is a good sign. We gave them feedback and they listened.

The policy was obviously flawed, but I think the spirit of the post was valid. Instances like .ml have major censorship problems, and if they want to be the opposite of them then that's great.

I haven't interacted with the LW admins much, but I'm confident that they'll be more flexible than LBZ if they do end up taking issue with our mod actions. But I don't think it'll come to that anyways.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

This isn't my post, but I'll ask Moss to edit in a better explanation into the "why" part of the text.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure we can, and they rescinded the policy anyways. I think they mainly wanted to combat censorship, so I think whatever they update it to will be reasonable.

The kind of content they were concerned about was respectful and well-meaning people, so I'm confident that if we continue to ban/remove people/comments as we have been doing, there will be no problems.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 hours ago

I'm just trying to set the record straight, because after that incident a lot of people seem to have gotten the impression that we disagreed with Ada's decision, or that we banned Drag over neopronouns. But we don't disagree, and we do respect neopronouns.

And about my comment, I only brought it up because Pug's post was getting a lot of positive reception, so I thought if people were unhappy with BLZ then it'd be a good idea to tell them we've been working on transferring out of there. But Ada got upset over it, and tbh I'm still not sure exactly why, so I removed the comment.

 

I just want somewhere that won't even show me new episodes until an unghosted version is released. I primarily watch anime for the animation, so blurred and darkened frames really ruin it for me.

 

(TL;DR): I love being terrified, and this has led me to a fascination with imagining being a witness to / a victim of various tragedies. Is that weird?


The earliest example I can remember of wanting to know what it was like to be a victim of a tragedy was when I first learned what happened on 9/11. We were visiting my grandma, and she was watching a documentary about it. That's the first time I had seen the footage and heard an explanation of it all, and I was still a child (like way too young to be processing what I was seeing), but I was fascinated by it. Even after everyone had left the room to hang out on the porch, I stayed in the living room to watch more. I wanted to know everything, but most of all I wanted to know what it was like to be there. Both as a witness and a victim.

To this day, I would pay good money to get hooked up to something like Roy from Rick and Morty so I could safely experience it without knowing I was safe. And I'd like to choose as many perspectives as I want. From the hijackers, to the people on the directly impacted floors, the people on floors adjacent to the impact, the people who jumped, the people who were outside and witnessed the crashes and collapses, the people who were trapped on the upper floors and remained inside during the collapse...

Besides 9/11, others at the top of the list are things like mass shootings, earthquakes and other natural disasters, catastrophic workplace accidents (mostly explosions), the sinking of the Titanic, Hiroshima/nuclear testing sites, other war related events, various atrocities committed by/against mankind (like the torture committed by the CIA against people suspected of being involved in the 9/11 attacks), the Heaven's Gate mass suicide, a significant portion of Charles Manson's life... It's a mix of wanting the experience and curiosity about the stories/information that never made it into public knowledge.

I don't have a death wish or anything, it's just for some reason I have a fascination with terror. I love getting sleep paralysis and having nightmares, and I feel a weird sense of catharsis when I wake up and realize I'm safe. My favorite ones are when I'm utterly convinced I'm going to die. Even as a kid I loved terrifying shows (like Courage the Cowardly Dog and Mr.Meaty), and as a teenager it evolved into broader consumption of surrealist art, and then I started watching Live Leak videos where I got a more realistic sense of terror. I watched all of the Bjork stalker's tapes, which, if you aren't familiar, they end with him shooting himself after mailing a letter bomb to her. Knowing he filmed his suicide was what piqued my interest, but I also wanted to get into his head so I started from tape #1.

How weird is all of this? Any psychological explanations/speculations about why I'm like this? (And are there any other subs I should ask this in?)

 

Unusual kind of post but still religious cringe:

After I finished helping someone I said "have a good day" and walked away, but then she said "you see no god?" Which was confusing before I realized what she was talking about lol. After a second I said "oh yeah haha, I thought it was cute." And she responds with "well I have a good god."

I just said "okay" and walked away again. But I wish I would've asked her if she seriously thought I worshiped a dog with a cone on its head lol.

This is the third time I've gotten a negative comment on my shirt at work. I'm not even anti-religion, I just thought a dog that had to get a cone juxtaposed with him saying he's a god was funny.

 
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TL;DR: Some people who buy cigs from me expect me to remember their orders when I don't, and when they do it repeatedly I remember them because they're an asshole but I pretend that I don't. AITA?

I work at a gas station kiosk, and obviously I have a LOT of "regulars"... I remember a lot of them, but some people just walk up to my window and say something like "it's me again" and stare at me, as if I know who they are or what they want. A lot of them will do this repeatedly, and I end up remembering their order anyways because of how much of an asshole they are. That's when I pretend not to remember, even if it's the 100th time.

The newest one doesn't speak English, but this is the third time where this exact sequence played out:

He walks up to my window and says "one cigarette", to which I reply "which ones?" He says "lucky" so I grab regular Lucky Strikes, and he says "nonono" and points as if I can accurately judge what he's pointing to from that far away. After that doesn't work, he says "gold", so obviously I grab gold Lucky Strikes, and then he goes "no. no." again. He starts pointing again, and I still don't know what he's pointing at, so he makes a motion to indicate "the one to the right of that one." ...

He wants Lucky gold 100's, and at this point the only reason I remember his order is because he can't be fucked to remember how to say "hundreds". He'll say "lucky golds" after a lot of prying, so I don't think he should get a pass because of the language barrier.

This is the third time he's come up to my window and done this. I remember his cigarettes now, but next time I'm probably going to do the whole song and dance again. Me having your order before you get to the window is for people I remember, not for people who I remember because they can't be fucked to tell me what they want. AITA?

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