On average, how many new people do you talk with every week irl?
Apparently Reddit polls can only have 6 entries -_-.
But anyone else feel free to comment your answer too.
Also wondering where most people talk to new people
Hi, I’m the owner of the sub and this is my monthly rant.
As an owner of this subreddit I’ve observed countless patterns of behavior that limits us as a community.
That’s not to say that the community is bad or anything, in fact this community has a ton of good to it.
But if we want to improve being open about the limitations may be helpful.
Emotional appeal typically gets the most upvotes rather than diverse opinions.
This one is kind of expected, especially when I observed my own patterns as a blackpiller, sometimes validation hits you emotionally.
I personally think this may also be a Reddit limitation, due to the nature of upvotes and downvotes, it kind of rewards circlejerking related behavior with karma and attention. We have minimal levels of control for this functionality as a moderator.
Typically the comments and posts we remove have the most upvotes because they appeal to emotion rather than productive conversation.
Additionally an emotionally charged environment makes it harder to introspect and respond in depth.
Surface level or low effort or repetitive discussion and the acceptance of such
This one hurts me personally as I want us to dive deeper on topics so we can grow in knowledge as a community.
This may also be due to Reddit’s low quality expectations, a-lot of people have accepted quantity over quality.
We will look into ways to enforce more thinking for every post, maybe a rate limit or something.
But honestly the community needs to shift into expecting more from everyone they chat with or information they read and do more critical thinking.
Frankly we have so many people but the opinions and thoughts feel the same, it almost feels like reading content from bots sometimes (dead internet theory? Lol).
Not responding to what the other person said
Please, if you notice this, just point it out and if they refuse to engage with what you said, end the conversation early if blatantly obvious.
If we keep accepting shifting the goal post type of behavior rather than diving point by point, debates will never be productive.
But also be self aware and notice when you yourself are doing this, prior to calling them out.
Sourcing with bias or treating a source as a conclusion
This one we actually ended up making a rule for, but it still occurs sometimes.
Basically I notice that some people will just spam research urls in a comment or post and act like it justifies their conclusion.
No, it doesn’t; not even a bit.
If you want to source research, please show that you have understanding of what you are linking and its limitations.
Almost all research will show patterns, not conclusions for said patterns.
Unbalanced diversity of identity
This is one that is hard to deal with as it’s a combination of all the things I’ve mentioned here and preconceived notions.
I literally want people with diverse views, yes that includes people from inceltears, feminists, blackpillers, etc.
However when those people try to engage, they get written off quickly by a few people.
Please stop doing that, be open to new views and be civil about it.
Treat each other as humans with different views rather than a satan spawn.
Poor attention span
This one is likely due to the nature of social media nowadays. Social media has been focusing on getting as much attention as possible and showing shorter content in rapid succession.
It’s the reason a-lot of people will likely not read what I’ve said here and why making change in society is so hard.
It’s almost like the government and companies want this outcome, because it’s harder to do any action/protest irl when you’re bombarded with information.
Additionally it literally impacts our brains, I always think back to before I had the internet as a kid, I was able to be bored and be ok with it. I find it much harder now to do “boring” things.
But boring things is where we grow the most, so please don’t offset your thinking to LLMs, instead do the HARD (research in depth, etc) path and actually learn.
Treating a single example as proof
This applies to everyone whether that be incel, blackpiller, normie, feminist, etc.
Humans are very quick to make conclusions of reality off of their personal experience of life.
Sometimes this shows up as a blackpiller that got rejected in high school being used as proof that all women are bad.
Or it shows up as woman finding one example of a guy who had success and using that as proof for their points.
The point is, always be skeptical at sweeping claims without sufficient thought process and evidence (notice not only “evidence”).
Try to challenge your own views more and seek opposing opinions rather than appealing to bias or emotions.
Minimodding (but what about…)
This one I find very annoying as a moderator that tries to apply our rules evenly.
If someone gets punished or muted or etc. Often times they will try to argue their case by pointing out other cases they deem wrong and wasn’t punished.
Please just stop, maybe get help lmao.
In mod mail I’m not there to argue our entire subreddit history with you.
Yes, we make mistakes, surprise we are indeed human (well I’m a pufferfish but eh).
The most productive thing you can do in modmail is chat rationally and with a calm mind with us and show some willingness to take in what we say and in some cases make a change.
Anything else will result in more punishment or being ignored.
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That’s all I had for this post, thanks for reading.
If you have any ideas on how we can improve the sub, please let me know.
- your favorite pufferfish 🐡
Ps: special thanks to the mod team for helping me keep my sanity
Whenever I bring up problems or solutions at work, it feels like I just get ignored nowadays.
Back when it was just me and the previous boss I had a lot of say over the tech direction.
But recently a new manager stepped in, hired a bunch of contractors and another engineer and takes what I say much less seriously compared to others on the team.
Sometimes it feels like appeal to hierarchy.
It feels like he isn’t directly responding to what I say most of the time, I can’t quite explain it.
Idk, any thoughts?
Hi,
I’m wondering if anyone here has found a MIT like license to prevent use of code in LLM training and any guess / info on if such in enforceable.
Currently I believe that LLM training on every piece of open source software is unacceptable and we should take a stand against it.
Similar to what codeberg is pushing lately.
I would find it odd if such license doesn’t exist already and would wonder why it hasn’t yet.
Thanks
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