u/GovernorGeneralPraji

The community poll was overwhelmingly in favor of this change. We only had a single vote to keep things as they were.

Hopefully this will allow us to continue to weed out the bots. Everyone, please keep sleuthing and reporting. If an image has been “stolen”, it’s 100% now a reportable offense.

Hey, all.

I’m sure most of you have noticed a huge uptick in bot posts lately. With our relatively recent surge in membership, it was inevitable. It’s not unique to us, it’s happening all over Reddit to middling sized subs. Well, it’s time to talk about how we realign the sub’s rules to deal with this influx of spam content.

Most of you know that I’m the type of mod who really only likes implementing rules if they’re necessary, but I’m considering adding a new one. We’ve never had a rule against posting pictures of random burgers you’ve found online. It’s kinda how we got started when we had less than 100 people here. But lately a huge swath of new posts are accounts posting pictures that they didn’t take, which, again, we don’t currently have a rule against.

A lot of the time, you can’t really tell if it’s a bot account or not. I’m not somebody with bot paranoia, so I’m not scrolling through someone’s account for 10 minutes to figure out if they’re human or not. Sometimes it’s obvious, and they get a smack with the banhammer. Kudos and special thanks to those of you who do the whole reverse image search thing and find where images originally come from. That actually helps me out quite a bit.

A LOT of the accounts I investigate as spam link to a Reddit account that mostly posts NSFW content with an inevitable link to an Only Fans account, and you guys are on the ball with reporting those. As much as I personally disapprove of that type of behavior, I can’t ban people simply for engaging in the world’s oldest profession.

What all of those account types do though is post images they didn’t take. As much as I personally roll my eyes at how seriously people take the concept of “stolen images”, it’s time to address it. I’m from the days of the old internet where people would share to whatever forum they were on whatever they found online that looked cool. These days, first hand attributability is in.

So that brings us to the prospect of a new rule. Should we only allow pictures that people have taken themselves? I don’t care if you made it yourself, ordered it at McDonald’s, or creepily took a picture of a stranger’s plate at your favorite bar, only firsthand submissions would be allowed. This wouldn’t apply to stuff like memes, art, videos, etc.; just the normal burger pics that are 99% of what gets posted here. I have a poll attached to this post, please vote. I don’t want to change the sub unless the majority of you guys are in agreement.

Bot accounts will continue to be banned. Thanks again for those of you who do the detective work for me. I have a full time job, kids, a wife who occasionally wants my attention, a DnD campaign I write and DM for, and have recently started painting Warhammer minis, so… not exactly a lot of free time on my end 😆

I’m also implementing a new rule about AI images. I’m not banning them. I know it goes against the Reddit hivemind, but I think stuff like that can be a lot of fun. New rule is that any AI image has to be tagged as AI and openly presented as AI art. No “best burger I ever ate” posts that’s obviously GPT.

I think that’s all. Keep grilling and thanks for continuing to be a great community 🫡

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This isn’t so much a cry for help as it is just a… defeated rant.

I spent weeks putting together my mod list. Pouring through nexus and sorting each category by most endorsed and just seeing everything available.

I made it to level 40ish on survival, killed Kellogg, and made it back to Red Rocket and Sanctuary (which now have ~20 settlers each). Problem is when I save and load in those cells, those saves turn into an infinite loading screen.

Because survival mode is as obnoxious as it is fun, I’m stuck using a modded in quicksave item to save my progress (whoever thought a BETHESDA GAME only needs one save file should be flogged). The mod cycles through about a half dozen different save files, and all my most recent ones are at Red Rocket except for a weird one that won’t go away in Fort Hagen about two hours of game time ago.

I’ve tried disabling different mods in MO2 to see if anything helps and it doesn’t. Nothing works. I literally have no idea how to troubleshoot this, nor what mods I should avoid if I do a fresh new game.

Since the issue doesn’t crop up until late game, there’s not even a good way to test it with a new loadout.

I’d post my load order, but if there’s a way to copy it from MO2, I have no idea how.

Fuck, I just feel defeated.