[2021-07-20 | 11:22:29 UTC] You have a message from Bytram: I've said it before, and I believe I even mentioned it in a story, that I would not object posts like this being modded as spam: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=43972&page=1&cid=1158137#commentwrap
So it's official. Anyone spamming contentless bullshit like that? Spam-mod them out of existence. No, you special snowflakes, that's not "censorship" any more than telling someone to clean up after their dog is a violation of their freedom of association.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 21 2021, @12:15AM (18 children)
I'll Spam mod anything that's contentless slur-streaked drivel. Make an actual interesting, germane, and relevant point and you may get away with Flamebait, but if it's just the usual bullshit, it's spam. If you don't like it, leave. I'm doing nothing the admins are not either actively encouraging (Bytram) or blatantly signalling they'll look the other way on (FatPhil).
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @01:20AM (3 children)
"Make an actual interesting, germane, and relevant point and you may get away with Flamebait"
... you heard it here first, folks. Interesting, germane, relevant stuff - flamebait.
"I'm doing nothing the admins are not either actively encouraging (Bytram) or blatantly signalling they'll look the other way on (FatPhil)."
I wonder whether this is what Buzzard was talking about. Cancel culture coming to soylent? I could see that doing it.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @01:41AM
Coming to Soylent? This place has been a safe-space for Judeo-Bolshevik bullshit for at least a year or two straight before Buzz "left," and it will remain that way for the forseeable future. Sounds like he was shooed out by pushy Jews doing what Jews typically Jew...uh, I mean, do.
Storywise it's pretty much a 3-topic rotation of Russia scaremongering, or some sort of bullshit environmentalist concern over regular yearly climate variations (including "new" methods of environmentally-friendly transportation), or Marty's space launch blogs; and seasoned with a little of Takyon's tech plugging to taste.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by https on Wednesday July 21 2021, @04:46AM (1 child)
Your editing elision shows your intent:
Reading comprehension? Deliberate fail. I am reminded of an old insight, Jean-Paul Sartre on anti-Semites:
Offended and laughing about it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @02:25PM
It doesn't matter what the marring is. Interesting, germane, and relevant - nonetheless flamebait. It's a direct statement concerning moderation standards that have no bearing on the quality of presentation, but on the content.
It could have applied as well to:
"... marred with the pointed addition of filthy, dirty foot fetishism"
and it would still have been interesting, germane, relevant foot fetishism being marked as flamebait.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @08:07AM (11 children)
Thanks for my new sig.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @02:07PM (10 children)
quoting the second without first sentence is very definition of quoting out of context.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday July 21 2021, @02:54PM
Quoting out of context is a favorite tactic of the dishonest.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @05:56PM (8 children)
Your point of view is noted, and shrugged off for being uninformed. 'Zumi often mods "actual interesting, germane, and relevant point" as troll. So long as you agree with her point of view, you might not notice. Challenge her world view, and you quickly become aware of it.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @06:50PM (7 children)
So according to you she moderates like a Republican? My AC comments that get the highest rating are typically downmodded 1-2x, then later end up at 3/4/5, and I don't even need to sock puppet like *some* users around here!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 22 2021, @05:04AM (6 children)
Give aristarchus a break ... It's not easy being a white savior against the hordes of alt right nazis hiding behind every corner and in every shadow. But never you worry, CRT is going to end racism once and for all.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 23 2021, @05:03AM (5 children)
Americans are going to do something about systemic racism, because Americans are basically decent people, a nation established on the Principle that all persons are created equal. Racists going to go down, hard, and soon.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 23 2021, @06:27AM (3 children)
Conservative racists will be replaced by progressive racists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 23 2021, @10:41PM (2 children)
Liberal-biased reality will replace conservative false equivalencies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 23 2021, @10:59PM (1 child)
We'll all be living in a dystopian Hollywood movie. We all knew that our current "Escape from L.A." is only the prequel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 24 2021, @12:29AM
Conservative survivalist fantasy!
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday July 25 2021, @09:56PM
need a "+0 delusional" mod..
Is it nice on your planet?
Can I join you?
I think it is fair to say divisiveness (way beyond 'wedge politics') is now driving most major country's politics. No one can be a 'moderate' and there is very little 'centrist' left in any voting blocks. Countries with compulsory voting tend to get the lazy middle out, which counters some of the extremism, but there is a strong driver to the far left and far right - almost as if they are the motivated people.. (this also applies to any 'cause' - the highly motivated are usually more... extreme.)
How do we find middle ground when both extremes don't think the 'other side' deserves to even live?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @06:54PM (1 child)
And there is your mod-point abuse showing through. An "interesting, germane, and relevant point" should never be modded flamebait.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @10:24PM
And there we go, modded troll, giving yet another example of: