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We really need a comm for commentors who aren’t lost but just plain clueless. Something like ‘c/rtfa’

Guess you’re getting eaten along with the rest of the rich when the time comes 😁

It does not take any funding to create accounts a few days in advance. Automating account creation is probably the most basic step in any troll’s toolbox.

reactionary basement neckbeards who wouldn’t post the same stuff a day later.

Trolls who give up after a day aren’t trolls, they’re users having a bad day. And if they’re stopping after a day, their impact on everybody else is miniscule.

On the OTHER hand, as everybody has pointed out, you’re badly impacting the new user experience. Bullshit posting restrictions on reddit are one of the worst things they came up with. Let’s not replicate all the user hostile stuff they implemented.

How does staggered new account permissions help deter bad actors in any way whatsoever? There’s nothing preventing them from having a pipeline of accounts in aging.

Yeah, they all seem to be posting vague ragebait. There’s definitely some sort of agenda there

If they had made the change for that reason, sure. But the actual stated cause was some pretty thing.

Very cogent take, enjoy the incoming downvotes.

Piefed fixes pretty much all of those questionable software decisions, though it does introduce a couple new ones of its own.

Reducing the amount of doomsday content on the front page, which I’m trying to help out with by starting !Nonpolitical_comics@piefed.social

The blog is hilarious.

!Nonpolitical_comics@piefed.social!

Windows: If you can’t exit gracefully, I’ll make sure you never exit at all

I agree it’s not optimal, but I fail to see how it’s a ‘backfire’. Would it be preferable to be dumping it all in landfills?

You seem be be operating under the assumption that laws themselves will always be just and equal.

You’re gonna have to tick a checkbox. The pain

It does sound like it could be more efficient, but that applies to a lot of things in our production and logistic chains.

Who cares who’s doing the recycling, as long as it’s not ending up in a landfill somewhere?