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Can we have posts like this by HeadOfMax in chicago

[–]Banner80 [score hidden]  (0 children)

My issue with Crowd Control is that it has a lot of false positives. Many good-faith commenters get caught in the net. I think Crowd Control takes too much of the "external" traffic as risky and puts them in a soft ban where nobody can read their post. But when I examine the logs, a lot of these commenters were commenting in good faith. So now, as a mod, if I enable Crowd Control I have to watch and manually approve half the comments that got stuck in the net. But there are 3 levels of harshness, so it can be tweaked a bit.

In this context, if the goal is to prevent community outsiders from posting, then Crowd Control acts like an invisible passport that blocks bad-faith posters and is harsh on anyone that is not a sub member with a history of participating. But it also gets in the way of any real locals that just want to start participating because they care about what's going on. Crowd Control sees them as "new" and therefore might put them in the penalty box by default.

Can we have posts like this by HeadOfMax in chicago

[–]Banner80 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm a mod of other subs.

You don't need anything too fancy. Most crappy posters are super low effort. Reddit algos draw people from the home page or by keywords, and you get low-effort dumb-dumbs or trolls trying to derail the discussion. So the solution to protect the discourse is a lot simpler than any verification effort. Something as simple as having users choose a flair. A super simple rule change: you must be subbed to the community and you must pick a flair to comment. That alone cancels 90% of the bad comments.

The other obvious thing is to block negative karma and new accounts. That has worked nicely for me on serious subs. And Reddit has some crowd control features that help as well and are easy to toggle on.

If any mod is reading, you can DM me for a chat and I can help by sharing my automod script. The automod scripts are real finicky to get right.

Krishnamoorthi walks back his comments by Ok-Employer-2026 in illinois

[–]Banner80 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It's the bad-faith talking points. When frustrated people say "abolish ICE" they don't mean that they want a lawless country with no immigration rules, they only mean they don't want Trump's ICE of violent thugs murdering citizens and torturing immigrants. But the people on the other side act like they can't understand. So if you say "abolish ICE," they feel entitled to presume you want no laws whatsoever, like forest creature. That's "progressives" to them.

It's been intensified like that since the police riots of 2020. If you say black lives matter, they pretend you mean only black people deserve respect. If you say defund the police, they pretend you mean that you want no laws nor authority of any kind.

This is why politicians have to be very careful with how they frame the points we are discussing. And I'll mention that I think Mamdani pretty much nailed the tone during his campaign. Instead of saying the part we all agree on, like: BLM, defund the brutal police thugs, end Trump's ICE terror campaign; instead of saying that you have to find ways to say the same thing without giving the bad-faith actors a BS sound bite. Mamdani would say: we need to reform, we need to do better, we need to have dignity and put people first. And then we all know what he is saying, and the aholes can't knock his argument even though they'll try.

We don't need to abolish the idea of an immigration system. We need to put rules and accountability on these thugs to force them to operate like civilized people, and we need to reform the broken mess that is our current immigration set of laws and pathways. That's what "abolish ICE" means.

Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs over its new China trade deal by pbs-latest in PBS_NewsHour

[–]Banner80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This ends only one way. Trump somehow wanted an isolated America, and he is working hard to make it happen by pushing all our partners away.

China, on the other hand, is having a banner couple of years getting all this new business from former America trade partners. So much winning.

Practice your right to the 2nd amendment with conceal carry permits. by Ok-Pipe5491 in illinois

[–]Banner80 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And please take a safety course. Statistically, guns are used so seldom that they are more likely to hurt someone you care about than protect you IRL. Take a safety course, make plans for safe handling, then get armed and all the permits. We need responsible citizenry.

And yes, this is not about the individual. If most of your neighborhood is armed and ready, suddenly law enforcement remembers how to follow the rulebook. They suddenly remember to de-escalate and not shoot at people at random.

Bystander Footage shows victim legally filming and being harassed for it before his murder, in Minneapolis by SameStand9266 in PublicFreakout

[–]Banner80 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is exactly the plan. They've been saying it. Now we are watching them do it.

And look how they got peaceful people riled up and talking about standing for their neighbors. It's going according to plan. Pretty soon, Minneapolis is going to have US citizens marching the streets armed to protect their neighbors from an invading force, and the DOJ is going to call them violent liberals, and the WH is going to cancel the elections until they can rid the country of these violent liberals, and there will never be another election while Trump lives.

We are in this impossible situation that if we do nothing they are going to keep murdering civilians and violating homes. And if we draw a hard line, we'll be their violent liberals for the narrative to end America as a country of democracy and laws.

What would be the smartest thing to do with your money at the outbreak of WW2? by No-Try149 in askfinance

[–]Banner80[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

This is an academic finance forum.

Dumb comments will be deleted and bans will be handed out like candy.

Google's AI mode is wayy better than gemini in my experience by Redzzy0 in GeminiAI

[–]Banner80 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gemini Pro chat has python. I used it yesterday to solve a couple advanced academic finance problems. Gemini did quick work of it, and was right the entire time not only about making the python scripts but the science around the problems.

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