u/999_Seth

Bellumeer?

Bellumite?

Bellumaut?

Bellumaniacs?

the Belluminati?

first off I have been wondering for a minute if Tetrachromacy might be a possible trigger for HPPD - basically Tetrachromacy is when the eyes form extra color censors that send junk "data" to the brain that is usually ignored, but when the brain stops ignoring it? yeah

also I've been dealing with the full on "it's like you're coming off acid 24/7/365" HPPD symptom suite for as long as I can remember - like being a little ass kid asking why traffic lights leave trails etc

Pretty sure this has something to do with either being a straight up crack-baby like a lot of millennials, hitting the joint when the stoner boomers would accidentally pass it to me when I was a toddler. I know they got my toddler ass drunk, maybe gave me shrooms. the conventional thinking at the time was something like 'kids can't make long term memories so just do whatever'

haven't heard that kind of thing here before so I'm throwing that out here to see if it rings a bell for anyone else.

Have you used the Reddit Answers AI search yet?

What it appears to do is take every comment about anything at face value, you know, the 'if someone says it, it must be true' type of aggregate that is similar to the AI-user-summaries that pop up

I came across it this morning after one of those weird comments got my hopes up for a little fresh mod-hating drama against me, but when I did an old-school search for the terms there was nothing recent.

That's when I noticed the Answers results were regurgitating what a disgruntled user had said about me over a year ago.

The remedy on the Answers page is that we can report the comments to reddit-prime to be evaluated for TOS offenses, and a little disclaimer that "Responses are AI-generated from posts and comments and may not be accurate."

So I sent a quick mod-mail to the sub where the old comments were, reported them there so they'd be easy for that team to deal with, but damn, this is not what I signed up for.

The premise that I am now responsible for maintaining the accuracy of every comment on the subreddits I help run or else an AI will amplify confusing discussions in a way that makes chatbot-users believe things that are not true is troubling to me.

I enjoy the conversations here with people. I like looking at profiles to see where individual users are coming from on a subject to weigh out whether or not they are making a worthwhile contribution.

Answers does not appear to make an effort to contextualize information, and it's now our responsibility to ensure that long forgotten insignificant threads aren't poisoning the Answers summaries.

What a time to be alive!

two months ago a dude who's been noticing how active I was in the community says to me "this feels more like personal thing. i dont even think they deserve it. you're doing a hell of a job here man i appreciate it."

and he went on further, "You dont have to tell me about it. even though i quit squad long time ago, i still look at the sub time to time and i can see that you're always around here like a squad mate. very dedicated and consistent. i've been looking at this sub way before i made my own reddit account. yet i didnt even know you were a mod until maybe a couple of years ago. thats what i actually want to see as a whole squad community. yeah i know its impossible but it was kinda like that years ago. maybe its just me missing those days. so i really appreciate your attitude and honesty. squad was a hobby to me as well. but i dont belong to squad anymore. its not the same game to me but still cant completely move on.. the itch still there. thank you for your efforts again."

The mostly idle "top mod" did not always like the 'active moderation' approach I use, told me to use alts, and this morning just took me fully off the team after nearly three year with no warning or explanation whatsoever.

It's wild to me how many mods take this very social, very personal role, yet they never say anything, and everything they do is from behind a curtain. Some subs that probably makes sense for, but a small-to-medium community?

I think it's best to have a visible mod team who's actively participating in the discussions, and that's the hill I died on.

I see a ton of posts where people are just talking exactly like they do in medication commercials, and it doesn't make sense.

When you get over Crohn's, you typically forget about it. When you're hurting? that's when we hang out online.

Somehow that has completely seemed to flip over in recent years, and it ain't just a handful of people trying to wish their remission into happening - it's the vast majority.

Makes zero sense except as a marketing job for the most profitable field of medicine in history.

I really enjoy that weird little feature that gives us an AI-summary of the users who post and comment. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I've always thought it was interesting. I remember seeing how it would give people different results on different subreddits.

I noticed today, comparing my summary from about a year ago to what it is now, and noticed the thing has gotten a little wordier.

It's gone from "Posts in r/Channel5ive discuss documentaries and hip-hop. Comments in r/squad are critical of game design. Other posts are unrelated."

and now it's much more colorful:

"Active moderator for r/Channel5ive and r/joinsquad. Contributes insightful, philosophical reflections on platform moderation and community management.

Engages in niche gaming and meme subreddits. Collaborative, tech-seeking, and community-focused."

Went from sounding like everyone I've met who's just like 'I don't know what he's on about' to like it's embellishing a linkin page for me. "philosophical reflections" is so cringe, I love it.

I don't mess around with AI anything that I know of, other than that and the algos that curate everything, so I'm not too familiar with what I'm seeing here. it's highly amusing though.

one of the subs I help run was talking about Reckless Ben Schneider, and a lot of the methods they describe sound a lot like crack-pot lone-wolf sovcit paper terrorism, but the folks having the discussion don't know terms like that and they're mostly cheering him on.

is there another more accurate legalese term for folks like Mr. Schneider?

Mod team here is redoing the user-flairs, cause frankly the ones we've got going are as old as Hunter Biden's dad

What do we need to include on that?

quotes, faces, landmarks?

and it would be extra good if y'all wanted to post any square image from the videos, we'll shrink them down to 128px and put them in the flairs

post flairs too, what are we missing?

the new mod here u/6nyh set it up so that the sub will start auto-assigning these to people who join the sub - if you want an auto-assigned flair early you can test this feature out by leaving and joining the sub real quick. it's real neat.

I'd like to get things set up here so that the auto mod assigns flair to people like the nerds are talking about doing here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1uqwbnx/assign_random_user_flairs_to_unflaired_commenters/

none of us on the team know how to do that because - like most reddit mods - we're all total degenerates, felons, and habitual liars

also you see how there's little pictures in the flairs?

I have no idea how they did that. it was like that when I got here.

The mod team was formed about two and a half years ago, and when I look at the team health stats now it's like none of the other mods are interested in the sub anymore. ( r/joinsquad )

I've identified three people who have a really positive online presence, and two of them wrote back to me saying they'd like to be on the team.

Wrote a message on the mod-team "discord," nothing yet. Wrote a "mod discussion" in the mod mail, no response to that either.

Am doing this right? What's the next step I should take to try to get those new mods added on?

old reddit still has the "share link" button, but that option doesn't allow for writing anything in the post

and I am not seeing the options for link sharing here on new reddit

does this new input box do all that automatically some how, or is there something I need to do to trigger it?

SOLVED thanks to u/Mrtom987

>Copy the share link from youtube and when you make a post in reddit, put the link in the "Link" tab. There are several tabs for you to choose like Text/Pics/Videos/ Link /QnA, etc. You need to put the link in the Link tab and can choose to add some additional info in the little text below below and hit post.

probably the fastest anything from a video game has shown up there for me.

you guys starting to dream about Africa yet?

so I guess the way it works now is teams just stay exactly the same between matches

what I've been seeing happening is like any other large player count game the side that loses more players between matches starts off with a disadvantage that isn't entirely skill-based. in bellum this can be especially challenging it comes to dropping caches.

not sure how factions are decided - sometimes I end up on the same faction a couple matches in a row, but I don't do long enough sessions to have any idea how that works.