Evolith

joined 1 month ago
[–] Evolith@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

The "I still have 3 more years, I can wait on everything I promised" look

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

"Pick up that can"

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Pretend to be a babe to get the babes

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

"You're going to die from stress" Yeah, no shit, after swabbing my canker sore-ridden cheek bite marks.

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Why isn't he boldly smiling in this one

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Overused, rebbit's cup spilleth over

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Knowing my conure, I'm sure that these guys could've been wonderful companion pets :(

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

The freedom to choose if your neighbor has a livable wage or dies slowly from a lack of income if you're rich in imaginary numbers.

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Media and techsimps praise a bundle of code that can spew garbage with a dash of plagiarism. Ted from my college comp class does the same, but all he got was a failing grade.

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Obligatory ATHF: "See this? This line here? Line of death. Cross it and your freedoms no longer exist."

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

*zon got to the point where they heavily counteract the refund game. They hardly check for items that are <$50, but, beyond that, there's an increased amount of effort to make sure that they can punish the customer. If there are enough returned items laying around that it becomes an issue from a common account, they'll actually look back over years to see the total value and if they shouldmake an example out of the person. That was a bit more common regarding high-priced tech items.

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

"See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; he holds us all within his mind."

 

Was recently granted the privilege of a permanent ban on reddit for a username I had for over four years and it led me down the rabbit hole of seeing more and more claims from other people who went through similar experiences. Hell, there's a lot of them. Frivolous reports resulting in punishment, appeals being automatically denied, the works, etc.

It might just be a presumption, seeing how many bots slide under the radar each day on that site through posts and comments, but I have a strong feeling that most (seemingly random) admin bans are designed to flush out active and semi-active human users rather than weed out bot code posing as people online. The end goal? Whether it's to create an automated, cyclical platform designed to extract marketing and ad revenue from a steady stream of new users or anything else for that matter, I know not. All I know for certain is that the ban tendencies have ramped up in the recent year and the people actually being punished for it are those who have been using it for long periods of time and manage to conveniently fall on the edge of a subjective TOS offense.

I had my suspicions that it was gradually turning into an AI-fueled cesspit, but now I've had my chance to really believe that it has. Good riddance in that case

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