• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    Very fitting headline in a day and age where I’m constantly seeing people advocating for giving trump the Whitehouse and finishing the country off because anything less would be SuPpOrTiNg GeNoCiDe. As if the move to help Palestinians would be to elect Trump. These people are very stupid children, bots, or Russian paid actors. Impossible to know which.

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      Russian paid actors.

      I got into that exact argument about Biden. Eventually I called the person a Putin puppet and got my post deleted by a Lemmy.world mod.

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        So, you got into an argument, turned to insults, and moderation kicked in. Sounds like everything is working OK.

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          Sounds overzealous to me. Wrapped up in that is the assumption that associating a person with Putin is said as just a way to hurt feelings, rather than a perhaps-assuming claim… before yesterday, it never once occurred to me that a mod would have an issue with a claim of association that cannot be proven either way. Might as well start banning people for telling each other they’re wrong.

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            Wrapped up in that is the assumption that associating a person with Putin is said as just a way to hurt feelings, rather than a perhaps-assuming claim… before yesterday, it never once occurred to me that a mod would have an issue with a claim of association that cannot be proven either way. Might as well start banning people for telling each other they’re wrong.

            So, if I were to hit you with a claim of association that cannot be proven either way, but just so happens to conveniently dismiss anything you said, and anything you might say in response, you wouldn’t consider that a personal attack?

            Fine by me: How much is Putin paying you to sow bad-faith arguments among non-republicans?

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              I am frequently hit with much worse “attacks” than this and I laugh at and ignore the vast majority of them. Even when someone’s particularly good at being personally insulting (this example is NOT) I rarely get hurt by it.

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                Ah, so you do, in fact, recognize it as an attack, a personally insulting one, with the intention “to hurt feelings”, and not a “perhaps-assuming claim” you present it when trying to justify not getting banned for being an asshole.

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                  recognize it as an attack, a personally insulting one, with the intention “to hurt feelings”,

                  Precisely what I strongly dispute. It’s only an insult if you have no idea what an actual insult is.

                  trying to justify not getting banned for being an asshole.

                  Kinda ironic that you did not even read the conversation, and you get to call me an asshole in the same breath as telling me I was insulting, which again since you didn’t read the conversation you’re pulling that assumption straight from your rectum anyhow.

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          You’re exactly right, and you proved your own point with this comment thread. It’s really sad that people can’t be polite and think they have to resort to ad hominem crap.

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        Annnnd I was banned from politics on lemmy.world. this is actually kind of messed up. I don’t think I said anything particularly offensive even. It seems like it was more about my message.

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          I was banned from all of . world for shit posting in a running group by saying I’m too fat to run. The group crossed my feed when I was sorting by all and I said it just for shits and giggles.

          That got me banned but when I went on the discord and asked about this another mod came along and reversed it.

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        The “automod” just removed 5 of my comments for complete bullshit reasons, but it honestly does seem like they did it in response to the exact same issue – I claimed someone is a russian actor. I’m now wondering who runs lemmy.world, and what exact agenda they have.

        Despite it claiming “automod” there were human-written reasons, one of which was “Provide evidence of shilling or this is personal insult.”

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          You do realize I read Lemmy right?

          No, they were reported multiple times, and I removed them by hand, no bots were involved.

          Like I said in the modlog, if you have actual evidence of botting, let’s see it, otherwise, you are intentionally antagonizing people, and I can’t let you do that.

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            It seems like you assume I know a lot of things I either don’t know or forgot about. Forgot about the modlog, still even looking there, it’s missing detail, such as someone to message to ask a question. Also, … “abelist insults”, really? I believe I wrote a couple things like “what is wrong with your brain?” which would not be taken as seriously by anyone I know.

            I did see the message about providing evidence of shilling… I am just curious what would constitute such evidence? In my experience you could almost never prove it, and ironically that is what the parent post above is literally about.

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              It seems like you assume I know a lot of things I either don’t know or forgot about.

              You admit that you have no evidence at all, and you are going around calling people who disagree with you “Russian bots”?

              Suspicious voting patterns, repetitive spam messages, all of these would constitute as evidence, and our admins ban these spam bots usually within minutes.

              "what is wrong with your brain?” which would not be taken as seriously by anyone I know.

              You are going around and calling people stupid," it’s just a joke bro" is not going to cut it. Ironic prejudice is still prejudice.

              I don’t want to argue with you more. Take the next 3 days off, talk about something else, think about how you can contribute positively before you come back.

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                You admit that you have no evidence at all, and you are going around calling people who disagree with you “Russian bots”?

                No I didn’t, to any of this.

                Ironic prejudice is still prejudice.

                Uh, wow. No prejudice involved.

                I don’t want to argue with you more

                News to me this was an argument as the first contradiction just occurred

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        I mean, that’s fine. I only have a problem with people who will watch the world burn under the guise of principles

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          But if biden loses I’m going to blame HIM, not the voters. We all know how dangerous trump is. If biden and other mainstream dems actually believed it they’d be pushing boundaries like never before. But they’re not. They’re actually moving further right to try and appease “centrists” which is pretty much what the social democrats did in Germany in the 30s and we see how well that worked out. They should be promoting the organizing of militias in case trump supporters try to fuck around and seize power again if democracy really is on the line.

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      vote biden because trump bad

      what about their resumes? what have either candidates done that has benefited your life enough directly that demands your vote?

      please name one thing biden has done that your life now is better for

      was it the cannabis reforms he promised and flip flopped on with prosecutor harris? was it the police reforms he promised? was it defending our human rights? was it the immigration policies he talked up that now mirror republican strategies? or is that stagnant paycheck after biden promised a higher minimum wage of $15 which is still too low due to the inflation?

      forgot he can not do anything because republicans and republicans never can do anything either because democrats

      through policies and laws crafted and put in place by politicians like biden, trump, obama, and the list goes on my right to vote was taken so not like have a say in this election anyways

      https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/

      https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/?ruling=true

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        Not that those links would be the metric to go by when voting, but they do not support your position as Biden’s stats are much better there.

        I will not waste any more time on you so don’t bother replying

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          Yeah. I had to look at both twice to make sure and laughed a bit. Some people can site sources. But they can’t read em

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      Why am I unsurprised that its lemmy.world libs bringing the ‘everyone I don’t like is a russian bot’ line to the fediverse.

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      lemmy despite trying not to be like reddit, it’s still moderated by people that get off on the power trip exactly the same

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          Yeah exactly. What’s weird is my ban was reversed in lemmy.world/c/politics. I have no idea why but I sense weird behind the scenes drama

          They don’t care that much.

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    Everyone’s being funny about it, but the Dead Internet Theory is looking more and more rational, especially on Reddit. I really don’t have any rational reason to expect that even the dancing TikTok people are real, never mind Reddit comments. I’m fairly certain that I am a living thing, but I have to question everyone else, with all due respect.

    Man, Reddit’s weird now. I think it’s just responding to the cookies that it sets as I use it, but I don’t log in and FF dumps cookies every time I close the browser for the night, so when I browse into r/All there’s a new “hot” subreddit every time, and it’s always kind of random. The usual suspects, like JusticeServed and all that fashy shit, those are kind of conspicuously absent, too.

    I think Reddit’s on their way out, not because of Lemmy, sorry, but because all the normies getting forced online in 2020 was the last hurrah, and the site is on the way down, finally, I can feel the traffic dropping. Everyone’s either getting sucked into the jet engine of TikTok and Instagram or they’re just using group chats and avoiding social media altogether.

    The fascinating thing about modern Reddit is at long last the Americans all seem to have left, and suddenly the site feels like it belongs to the EU, and even South America a bit. So either it’s about to rise with a new flame in this next decade or you should probably buy one share of the IPO as a keepsake and no more. I wonder how long it will take to delist.

    My dude, I’ve spent the last couple years really upgrading my finance chops and now I just keep looking around at the variety of internet based things that seem to be winding down like a shitty old clock while going, hah! interest rates too high now! The current internet was only possible in the free money era.

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    I mean… welcome to the internet. It’s not just Reddit, but most social media, and some “news” sites.

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      It’s from The Hard Drive, which is another satire site. The sidebar for this community mentions that other satire sites are okay to post.

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        Thanks; I meant the “news” itself, about not longer being able to tell wether the news being satire or not., even though it’s from the Onion or Hard drive

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    I have a little trick to tell whether im arguing with someone who actually is astroturfin vs someone who’s simply ignorant. I just prick their egos, just a bit. Just a a minor one mind you, not a full throated dismissal. I like to work one into an otherwise on-topic reply.

    Almost always the other person zeroes in on and rises to the bait. If they don’t? Theyre working. Similarly, astroturfers won’t get nasty like real folks do, or double down like real folks do if you debunk their argument well. Astroturfers dont want eyes in that so they’ll simply ghost you.

    Just my hypothesis of course.

    Dunno what to do about figuring their age except tell people mine. Sometimes that gives my words more weight. If my experience is instead dismissed, i always have my 30 years of Internet shit talking under my belt! Insults don’t hit as hard when they’re all re-runs :)

    Edit: anyone want to tell me why they don’t like this? Points don’t matter when it doesn’t hide your comment but I am actually confused. You don’t like it? Think it’s bullshit? I am here for your complaints

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      Effectively you are dismissing users based on your own feelings and not much else

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        This might be true but it’s the best they I’ve got and it has served me somewhat well (confirmation bias, i know). Beyond my little trick there’s looking into their histories etc but everyone knows that one

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      Almost always the other person zeroes in on and rises to the bait.

      That’s a bad method especially on Lemmy which prides itself on friendliness.

      If I know I’m right, and coming down hard on someone in an argument, I actively avoid acknowledging insults because I see it as a tactic to stall from losing an argument.

      People will start ramping up insults before they lose in order to bait you into arguing about the insults instead of the facts that they are wrong about.

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        Respectfully, I don’t think lemmy is as friendly as all that. It’s a shit- ton better than Reddit though, (where i developed the method). That aside, there’s also my belief that there aren’t nearly as many astroturfers here (simply because of lemmys limited scope).

        And if what you said is true about avoiding responding to insults, youre kind of a unicorn. Be proud. Most peoples egos are right there on their sleeves, and if youve been around the block you know (at least on that) I’m right.

        People tie their egos to their beliefs. To attack their viewpoint is to attack them personally. People will get frustrated when you blow up an argument. People are easy.

        Now id like to move discussion away from how I’m wrong and my methods bad, and towards other related ideas. Perhaps we might discuss ways to better my method instead of throwing it out (perfect being the enemy of good and all that)? I would also enjoy hearing methods (maybe you have some) of seperating astroturfers from posters.

        Because they exist, and throwing up my hands is unacceptable

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          🤔🤔🤔

          A really good way I have found that doesn’t turn the audience against you like barbecuing souls does is to not speak to whoever you’re replying to at all. Openly say you’re addressing the audience and speak of your opponent in the third person, the way you do when you are talking about someone else right in front of them. Or like, the way you’d show them a new game system you bought, or cookies you made, or something.

          I did that before to an astroturfer on Reddit and the guy never responded back, and I got tons of sweet sweet Reddit karma.

          Do you keep a list of people whom you’ve verified as human, perchance?

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            A really good way I have found that doesn’t turn the audience against you like barbecuing souls does is to not speak to whoever you’re replying to at all. Openly say you’re addressing the audience and speak of your opponent in the third person

            I like your idea. I would like to keep people on my side generally since if i think someone is actually astro’n my turf i want other people to chasing them off too, not me. Generally i lose my audience when i mention the possibility they astroturfing even exists, and I’ve always wondered why. I’ll try your method out when i run into a 'turfer im sure about.

            As far as any list, sorry i got nothin. I used to keep a list of suspect astroturfers on Reddit but I’m way too new on lemmy, still finding my way around.

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        I mean, it can pride itself on friendliness, but it’s not really a friendly place. People are toxic and dismissive, often ignoring any nuance in a discussion.

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        That’s a bad method especially on Lemmy which prides itself on friendliness.

        I’ve seen a minor increase in people willing to reply and bring actual sauce to discussion. I’ve still never seen anyone willing to change their mind despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Even when you have a username like my which goads people into ad hominems using fake historical earworms lol.

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      Your strategy, while innovative, is fundamentally flawed. It’s disingenuous and presumptuous, alienating those who maintain composure and objectivity rather than reacting emotionally to your minor provocations.

      I propose an easier solution: interact with people who you find interesting. Worst case, you have a wonderful conversation with a bot and find your prejudice wasn’t even warranted.

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      Eh. I have 160 replies that I haven’t even looked at. Most of the time I just can’t be bothered to respond to you.

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        I think I’m probably just gonna end up in the inbox but why would you even comment on a forum if you had no interest in what the other person had to say? In this thread i suppose it’s necessary to say I’m not trying to trick ya, I’m curious! i wonder: what are you getting out of commenting without seeing replies?

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          Most of the time I don’t reply. Sometimes I do though :)

          You know that meme about the people who type up a whole response and then delete it, don’t post it, and move on? That’s unironically me, except now I skip the first three steps. My opinion isn’t worth anything and I (more or less) gave up trying to get people to change their opinions online a long time ago.

          I like seeing what other people have to say on various subjects. I don’t really like sharing, myself.

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            Hey, thank you for sharing! I thought i was gonna be #161. I think the kind of person who had the self-awareness to say something like “my opinion isn’t worth anything” is the kind of person that i want to see posting more, personally. But i get it. Take it easy :)

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      You think that anyone behaving like an adult after you insult them is a shill? Kee-rist, no wonder the internet is in such bad shape.

      i always have my 30 years of Internet shit talking under my belt! Insults don’t hit as hard when they’re all re-runs :)

      Only 30? If you weren’t online before '93 then you’re a n00b.

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        Would you mind explaining what party of my comment made your get angry?

        Did you extrapolate what i said, (i do this with people i suspect) to mean i do this to everyone?

        Was it when i mentioned people’s egos? did i come off as arrogant?

        Im interested now that everyone’s all cooled down in what got everyone all pissed off, cuz again believe it or not that wasn’t the comment’s intent

        What do you say?

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    Akshually, Distinguishing between an AI-generated comment and a child’s input can be challenging due to evolving language models. Both may exhibit simplicity, occasional errors, or innocence in expression. As technology progresses, this line blurs, prompting reflection on the nature of communication and the expanding capabilities of AI.