[-] Evolith@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Chronic onliner and unhinged ERPer wants the half-naked person in the painting to be a minor, more news at 11.

[-] Evolith@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Evolith@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Overused, rebbit's cup spilleth over

[-] Evolith@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Evolith@lemmy.world 2 points 3 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 4 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 1 month 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."

[-] Evolith@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Big ol' cascade effect. Even back in late 2015, they made an update to old-gen release consoles (PS3, 360) that prevented users from loading directly into Online upon booting up the game. If you chose that option; endless load loop and an eventual crash. From that point on until forever, you had to load singleplayer and use the shoddy interface to select an Online game for your multiplayer character.

They have a history of ruining Online with every update. I can only imagine all of the problems that accumulated since then, if it is even playable at all on those consoles.

[-] Evolith@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

And whenever they want to drop a site-wide ban for any reason, it's easier to punish the whole device instead of fixing issues or pretending that most of the ad viewership doesn't consist of bots.

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submitted 1 month ago by Evolith@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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

Evolith

joined 1 month ago