Did you accidentally get the wrong post here? Or are we playing Jeopardy or something

I have to admit… I kinda get that sometimes. Maybe I’ll spin up a new user just to test if that’s it

The reason I remember it is because the whole thing ended with that mod throwing a tantrum, promoting some random users to mods with an “if it’s so easy to moderate, you fuckin do it then” message, and deleting their account.

Can’t say I’m surprised. The quality of moderation here is, how do I say this… a fictional concept? It’s so easy to tell when someone is all “me want be important, me become internet dictator” and couldn’t give less of a shit about doing it vaguely properly.

Hm. Kind of a weird thing to be doing then. I know storage prices are up and all, but that half kilobyte of text?

… can’t really argue with that

If we (naively, I’m sure) assume they apply the rules as they’re actually written, those make a lot of sense. If they’re removing on rule 1 and 5 (no fake questions, especially for some agenda) then that’s basically the exact same suspicion I have myself for most of this. But then the majority traffic is spam or even more malicious. hm.

That would explain it, because some of them really are pushing the suspension of disbelief. Which is why it’s especially annoying when I go out of my way to assume whoever is not actually completely taking the piss or some other kind of idiot, and treat the question reasonably seriously. Despite what it looks like…

Deleting it afterwards makes me very suspicious indeed because, bluntly, many of the “questions” already felt… stupid… in the wrong goddamn ways. Not necessarily dumber shit, but differently dumb shit than people used to ask on reddit before LLMs, hint hint.

Seriously, have you read some of this shit?

It doesn’t seem to mean that OP did it, because it doesn’t look like that when I delete my own stuff?

I think that’s probably it, or pure cargo cult because “we’ve always had signatures so something’s got to go in that slot”. The whole idea of random scrawls for “authentication” has been weird all along. As if everyone walked around knowing what everyone’s signatures should look like. And if you do know, you can just… write it that way.

(Plenty of countries just have digital “signing” that’s a bit more like something sane, a central authentication thing based on your ID number and 2FA.)

(A rusty one?)

The simple answer is, porcelain is fairly durable, nonreactive and, well, smooth. You don’t want a material that’s prone to sticking in any way. The shape needs to be a certain way for the water to do away with… things, and not go everywhere.

That sucks when you have one of the THBPLTPLTBPHLTHLPTHPLTPPL ones in company, though.

If you and I make a contract, and then I turn around and change some terms with crayon, it’s not like you’re beholden to the new ones.

The one who dictates the terms of service is the one who provides the “service”, questionable though it might be. You agree to it when you sign up. When they change it up on you, it is with the assumption you’ll quit if you disagree strongly enough to the changes.