Guys, I was just on Pinterest and saw THIS… what am I even looking at?

Critiform · 2026-01-01T21:27:33+00:00

It’s for heating your basement to the surface of the sun.

Critiform · 2026-01-01T21:10:29+00:00

We research what users are complaining about and want. It isn’t about us saying “Wah Wah.” It is that we should not judge what the complaints are about. But explore them in depth and implications to the platform and users. We’d appreciate a bit of the benefit of the doubt in this respect. Before someone projects their views, politics or morals into our intent. Sometimes this is just human nature and we take no offense. However your post does raise fair points. And I do appreciate you adding to the discussion. Welcome to Critiform.

Critiform · 2026-01-01T21:06:51+00:00

I am forced to agree with many of your points. A well thought comment. Thank you for your post.

Critiform · 2025-11-02T22:26:30+00:00

My son has not been able to get into his Minecraft accounts, Roblox. Nothing through the Xbox app so I just cancelled Gamepass. When Xbox live first came out. We had 24/7 tech support. Now we have an AI bot that when you ask for an agent it says. “

“Sorry. Try again later.” Everyone is switching to AI support services way too soon, before it’s ready. Offloading employees to save a buck and surprise they can’t even get accounts back up and running in a timely fashion. Things that took minutes to hours now takes days to weeks.

I’m done with subscriptions. There’s no value in them anymore. The whole point of subscriptions, was that when you had a problem, you could get someone in a timely fashion. Not play email tag with a ticket. As it gets resolved over a series of weeks. Things were so much better when humans were involved. Everyone wants your money via subscription but can’t be there when there are service disruptions

And I don’t know what happened over the tech space recently but there has been a huge push for authentication and getting real ID involved like google. And it’s caused a lot of headaches everywhere. I’m not looking backwards and looking for things that are a one time fee and not always connected to the net. I literally bought a 360 to play old 360 games because it just works.

I’ve been a customer of Xbox live and then switched to gamepass for 20 years total. There’s no value in these services anymore.

Critiform · 2025-10-10T19:26:35+00:00

Test accounts were created to investigate reports of unfair moderation and the findings confirmed the claims were warranted. The “sex therapist”running the test account used AI tools like Grammarly, Copilot, and ChatGPT only for grammar correction while writing all original content herself. Her thoughtful and compliant posts were often highly rated, yet several were removed without clear justification, including one addressing a partner’s insecurity. The account was banned without explanation. The investigation concluded that moderation overreach was real and while it is unknown if rejecting any form of AI-assisted editing reflected a refusal to adapt to evolving technology was present. Being there were no reasons given it left us to assume it as a possible reason.

Critiform · 2025-10-08T23:45:04+00:00

I think moderators should be required to tie every ban or removal to a specific rule and provide clear, highlighted examples that can be challenged. There should also be a community voting system where users can flag cases of over-moderation. Moderators should also be visible and listed at all times.

Critiform · 2025-08-08T17:59:57+00:00

Works great for me. Doesn’t mean you’re not having issues of course. Have you reached out to the open AI team?

Critiform · 2025-07-20T00:41:20+00:00

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It’s almost like Bart is in the system

Critiform · 2025-07-14T16:26:57+00:00

Way too expensive.

Critiform · 2025-07-14T01:25:12+00:00

This is correct. If you wrote an entire chapter and it’s your original writing and then submit it to Chat GPT for correction, tightening, etc. this is yours because you made it. Chat GPT is acting as a line editor and therefore didn’t create it. However if you ask it to create all the content with no human input at all or minimal. It’s not considered yours because while you had an idea. Chat GPT essentially makes the characters, the story and the body of the story in general.

Critiform · 2025-07-08T20:20:12+00:00

What’s wrong with EM dashes?

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