They can be very predatory

My dad uses those insecticide or fertilizer things that hook up to a hose. I’m just worried about backflow into our pipes from it

ChatGPT has also found stupid typos or misplaced commas that humans can miss.

Why is does it look like summer in that picture when it’s mid January?

Achoo!

I already knew they didn’t want moderators to have better anti-spam tools since it would decrease the apparent activity to attract advertisers.

Some modifications to modmail broke toolbox and the toolbox creators have (mostly) checked out. So that’s fun.

Same here. I’ve left all my posts and comments up on Reddit. I’m sure it’s made it’s way in some form to Bard or ChatGPT. Just never know when some information would be helpful in a pinch, especially if it’s tech or programming related.

The loss of /r/homeautomation has set me back a week at least with respect to home maintenance. The loss of knowledge is crazy.

He took Elon Musk as an inspiration. I am wondering if he has a narcissistic anti-liberal leanings that he just wants to make whatever he can on an IPO while destroying it in the process

It was to make pay-to-play “big deals” with supposed app developers, I imagine. Maybe they were hoping to get a quantifiable influx of cash

It takes a lot of energy to overcome entropy

Definitely looks like they are managing their priorities well… /s

I have a relatively big sub that’s 13 years old but I have no interest in modding anymore. Someone else can recreate it here if they want.

No they restricted them to new posts.

You’ll just get a bunch of opportunist Dr. Breens.

A bunch of big subs just got purged of all moderators

Forever September

Hah. I’m a dad and I called my dad first thing to wish him a happy fathers day only to hear him wail about how hard it was being a father to me and that supposedly I don’t respect him because I won’t entertain his political arguments about wokeism or how bad democrats are.

So yeah. Thanks Fox News.

I think there is some pro-spez astroturfing as well as some users are just sick of it and want their subs back.

I put in a ridiculous amount of moderation work. I’m quite sad about it. I guess there’s not really much of a choice anymore.