Bored Ape NFT event attendees report ‘severe eye burn’
www.theverge.com
Some reports claim the injuries were caused by event lighting.
        • bh64@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          what do you mean? I haven’t seen one myself yet. It’s just a common expression.

          I don’t think that comment is trolling, just a bit low effort post. But that’s nothing rare in Lemmy/Reddit.

          • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            I have received something like 5 different replies to separate replies of my own, from new accounts with only one comment, all of which end with “not my problem.” It’s almost like a bot keyed off that phrase from my reply in a privacy community post, or there are some butthurt people with too much time on their hands.

            • bh64@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              It sounds like a weirdly specific thing for a bot to do.

              It could be a case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon:

              Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias referring to the tendency to notice something more often after noticing it for the first time, leading to the belief that it has an increased frequency of occurrence.The illusion is a result of increased awareness of a phrase, idea, or object – for example, hearing a song more often or seeing red cars everywhere.

              • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I was just informed that someone is following me around downvoting everything, which is hilarious since my instance has downvotes disabled. It’s definitely some idiot or a group of them.

                edit: also, its adorable that you suggest it’s all in my head, it’s not. I have the receipts. And the fact they are all coming from new accounts with only the one comment each is pretty obvious.

                • bh64@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Oh that’s bad. Good luck getting rid of them.

                  I personally find downvotes useful because there are a lot of low quality comments and content. Downvotes help me (and others) to avoid seeing them. Thus not wasting time with uninteresting posts or comments. But you aren’t supposed to downvote everything that someone says.

                  • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    Not that bad, the block feature works great.

                    I place zero value on downvotes because they’re used as a weapon, such as right now for me if my instance actually logged them, or as a harassment strat against lgtbq individuals, etc, and they have the potential and often do hide perfectly valid solutions in help threads because someone suggested an unorthodox method for a specific case that gets downvoted to oblivion because that solution didn’t toe the line with everyone else’s preferred one.

                    So feel free to engage with that, I’m not.