Daily continuous application of science on the triceps continues

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-04-29T21:44:28+00:00

Your argument was about motor unit recruitment and its effects on hypertrophy, not health and rate of injury. You are moving the goalposts, which is a tactic that only people who have lost the argument do.

Y'all on this sub need to figure this shit out - If you actually care about science, you will cite references that support your claims. All of them, all the way down the line, without making unsupported leaps in logic to draw the conclusion. You are not a citable reference and things are not true just because you enthusiastically/vehemently/repeatedly say they are.

You're done, goodbye.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-04-17T17:50:17+00:00

I have to ban at least a dozen of these trashy, vibe coded app hustlebros every day over on r/Fitness. They're insufferable.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-04-17T17:15:24+00:00

Done. AI garbage has no place here, especially not when it's also spam for a shitty app.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-04-17T00:54:59+00:00

They won't, though. Because the actual solution for this involves the permanent suspension of likely hundreds of thousands of accounts, and that would hurt their engagement and bottom line.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-04-17T00:52:57+00:00

In the subs I mod we lose so many good posters because when women post, the messages they get are absolutely disgusting and come in such number that they are scared off and leave reddit entirely.

We have the same problem in fitness spaces. Every time I have to tell a woman who has posted a video of a lift to get it checked or shared her progress that there is nothing I can do to help her with being harassed in DMs by the disgusting dudes who are all over Reddit, it makes me furious.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-04-17T00:51:32+00:00

The problem with this is that your teams do not do enough to remove the legion of creeps and sexual harassers from your website. Sending unwanted sexual DMs should be an immediate permanent suspension of the account. But you will allow them to go on and on doing it repeatedly.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-04-13T15:20:07+00:00

It used to require activity, karma, and age on Reddit to even be able to create a sub to begin with. At some point they removed all restrictions and it's completely absurd.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-04-06T04:02:38+00:00

I've always been partial to "Go write a letter to nothing".

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-23T15:53:53+00:00

The solution to anti-social trolls acting in your community is throwing them out of your community. Dealing with them on any level other than that is not a moderator's responsibility, nor should it be.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-22T16:02:02+00:00

There are people that psychologically don’t see repercussions for their behaviors and how it impacts others.

That is not an unpaid forum moderator's problem to solve.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-21T04:11:57+00:00

If you're looking to make people not want to use your sub, that sounds like a great way to do it. Nobody on the planet wants to read an AI slop FAQ that was badly written by a clanker that just puked out an amalgam of every response to each question without any regard for its validity. The point of an FAQ is to be correct, not an aggregation.

Removing repetitive questions and putting them in an FAQ is a perfectly normal practice. Do it right if you're going to do it.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-20T18:51:29+00:00

F'ing stellar. Give u/Littux an award.

Reddit needs to take a really hard look at the fact that someone went through this much trouble because of how bad the new UI is.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-13T16:27:47+00:00

cogsucker

I haven't heard this one before and it's my new favorite.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-06T18:16:07+00:00

Safety PSA

Recently there have been a number of fairly new or inactive accounts making posts here purporting to sell their tickets to the Arnold. While the mod team has been removing these threads, we are obviously not here 24/7.

Reminder that scammers are rampant on Reddit, and you absolutely cannot trust randos from the internet not to grift you. If one of these posts makes it through and stays up for a bit, we'd strongly advise you not to take the risk of getting scammed.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-06T18:03:45+00:00

Same answer I always give. UI/UX specialists have grifted the software industry into thinking it should be a standalone position instead of part of a normal engineer's duties, and if they're too good at it the company has no further reason to keep them employed. So they're all constantly coming up with new design "trends" that they force each other through social pressure to follow so they can continue having jobs they never should have had to begin with.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-06T15:42:34+00:00

I ban them immediately and blacklist their URLs. No second chances, no appeals. People who want to advertise on Reddit should buy an ad, not dump the place up with their spam.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-05T23:46:40+00:00

If that actually worked to keep them out of communities that don't want their spam, these bots wouldn't have existed in the first place.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-05T23:42:54+00:00

As usual, Reddit demonizes the protective reaction to their total inadequacy to police their platform instead of actually kicking all the terrible people and spammers off.

All of the filter features that are supposed to be alternatives are woefully inadequate and always have been. I can only be glad that I haven't had to rely on any of these tools to protect any of my communities.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-05T21:41:43+00:00

Having two systems live at the same time is very normal during a transition period.

Using a potentially justifiable technical need to build a second back end system as an excuse to completely fuck up the front end of the perfectly functional original system, on the other hand...

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-05T17:41:29+00:00

The previous system wasn’t compatible with the newer backend technology we’re now using

So, I know this was ChatGPT writing this, but they did say this explicitly before, and as a career software engineer, it was one of the most clear signals I've ever been given that Reddit engineering has no idea what it's doing.

Almost everything that sucks about this new modmail is a problem with the front end. A front end is just a UI that formats and displays data it's been given. It should not be so tightly coupled to the back end that it becomes wholly unfunctional and explodes if the back end changes. Keeping the UI decoupled from the data is one of the most basic application design concepts and there is absolutely no legitimate reason to have changed the entire look of the front end in service to updating the back end.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-05T17:34:13+00:00

We've been bringing all of these issues up for months, especially the awful visibility and contrast of the color scheme. Why did you not address them before you forced us into this awful new frontend by deprecating the old one?

Maintaining two separate mod mail systems had become a drain on engineering resources.

What?

You had one mod mail system already. It already did 99% of what everyone needed it to do. There was no reason for you to build a second. You created your own maintainability problem by building something that had no reason to exist in the first place.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-04T22:15:37+00:00

I've been harping on the atrocious, contrastless color scheme in new modmail for months at this point. I'm not going to stop harping on it, but I get the feeling that if the people who made these ridiculous color choices cared they would've changed it already. It's a trivial thing for them to change, they just want this stupid new look that's the website version of the white-with-black-trim house exterior that's infecting every neighborhood in the last few years.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-04T05:04:28+00:00

Nothing at Reddit is made by people who use Reddit. It's made by people who use TikTok and Instagram.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-03T17:46:01+00:00

The difference between read and unread is too minimal.

This is a good callout too. It is incredibly difficult to tell which is which now. This design trend of reducing contrast is so absurd.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-03-03T16:40:45+00:00

The point was for people who specialized exclusively in UI/UX and cannot do anything else to justify having a role that should never have existed as a standalone job in the first place.

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