https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20802768

I mean that take is pretty fair, the number of people bitching about features but not willing to learn a little bit of coding to contribute is too damn high. “We want better UI and to make it easier for normies!” So then contribute to the project. “No!”

The argument was that the mod in question didn’t take his ball and go home. I just pointed out that by removing himself from the moderating team, he removed an active moderator, which very much is taking your ball and going home, especially if the new mods that didn’t get asked if they wanted to be do just that, remove themselves and move on.

Actually, I’ve seen MetaFilter be fairly successful at rolling out as a legal non-profit entity with elections and interviews to be admins/moderators. What is the draw? These people are all paid, they are not doing the work for free. It’s now literally their day job and pays them enough to support themselves doing that as their job.

I know a lot of people don’t actually want to explore that, but I think that would instantly alleviate the complaints of people being expected to do labor for free. I don’t actually think it should be free, but as it is, Lemmy instances are not well funded enough for that, especially with the ability to create endless communities. MetaFilter has different sections, but nobody can just arbitrarily make a new section that needs new mods. So part of it here is how Lemmy is designed, and it’s base design reflects the assumption that moderators work for free.

So anyway, put me in the basket of “we should pay admins and moderators (as well as vote for them), and this would solve so many problems.”

lmao, oh bless your heart.

I would say yours was just a little more pointed, but I agree that it still falls under constructive criticism. I also think you’re doing the right thing continuing to try to get a response out of the original moderator in case they did this in a fit while having an unrelated bad day or something. We never know what’s happening in people’s lives outside the internet, and maybe they were dealing with a death in the family or who knows, just something where the stressors added up and this stress of moderating became too much to bear when faced with constructive criticism. They may come back in a day or so and regret their decision, which is why it’s good of you to keep communications open. Cheers, mate.

Yeah I know what subs I’m not interacting with any time soon now lmao.

I guarantee you this person you’re responding to is a power tripping bastard when it comes to their own communities, based on their attitude in this thread alone.

Sure nobody owes their time, but they signed up for it. The idea that you’ll never get anyone with even the tiniest complaint (and genuinely, it was an incredibly small complaint) and to just throw your hands and give up when you do is childish. The first person to bring it up even said they just thought the moderator was working too hard, not that they were doing anything wrong, and that they even understood and respect the philosophy behind it. They weren’t being rude, there’s almost no better way to present constructive criticism than how the OP brought it up to begin with. If that’s worth crashing out over, you’re not fit to be a fucking mod anyway, imho.

Yet in here a few people have written off as complainers instead of active members of a community who are giving community feedback.

I would get it if the users were being rude, but they clearly weren’t, the first person to bring it up especially was incredibly understanding and not rude at all. Losing it over constructive criticism is power tripping baby bitch shit.

“Their ball” in this instance would be the way they handled moderation, and they took their moderation with them.

Would you think any different if they removed themselves and everyone else as moderators, leaving it purposely unmoderated? Because he didn’t even ask if the people he modded wanted or were up to the task. What if they weren’t and the community spirals without moderation. Seems like taking something away to me.

I mean, in a sense, forcing people who didn’t ask for mod powers to suddenly be mods because of very minor criticism and then bailing seems like power tripping to me. “If you don’t like the way I do it, do it yourself!” Where the power tripping is taking their ball and going home because people don’t like how they’re doing it.

This is amazing. Thank you for the share. Context makes this even better.

Why does this feel like something from the 90’s. Is it the mohawk and the shades? I think it might be. I don’t know why it makes me think of like Rude Dog and the Dweebs or something in that stylistic vein.

It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here?
What better time than now?

War hurts everyone. Make porn not war.

2B fitting into that trope undermines the notion that 2B has to make the choice to change the outcome by making different choices. The true ending of the game makes it pretty clear that they have to save themselves from it, that no one is coming to save them, and that they must make new, different choices to save themselves from repeating the same bleak future over and over forever.

I mean hell, the major music theme for the ending, “Weight of the World” is literally a woman singing about why is God punishing her and that she has the weight of the world on her shoulders, clearly no one is coming to save her and she is pleading to a non-existent/uncaring God for relief from suffering.

Personal opinion anyway, but it’s Yoko Taro’s baby so he can undermine the major themes of the game for more money and gooners if he wants I guess.

Cockit League

I have never enjoyed living in the world.

One of us! One of us! One of us!

This but it’s Black History Month is another good variation.

What’s really fucked is real academic economists have been many of the people ringing the alarm bells for the last 40 years, while pop economists bought and paid for by capital are the only voices in the media.

For example, Jim Cramer isn’t an economist, but for a lot of rubes who know nothing about economics, they’ll follow him until they’re all penniless.

TV and newspaper economists generally support the status quo and academic economists have been pointing out how increasingly fucked we are for a long, long time.

Even Robert Reich, who actually does have an academic economics background and who is better than a lot of mainstream economists, still largely supports a capitalist system with restraints. You just won’t see more extreme viewpoints than that of Reich when it comes to the media.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

-Noam “I’m still stupid enough to have associated with Epstein” Chomsky

“Hmm hmm heh. She said oral. Whoa, Homer was a chick, that rules.”