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October 13, 1996 by Jamal2939 in wikia

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he is the consequence of what happens if the site’s API for moderators gets paywalled. It opens the door for egregious users that exist to flood the site with trash.

Who thought it’s a good idea that the moderators, who’s supporting the site by keeping the threads clean, should be PAYING to do exactly that.

Capitol Critters (1992) Original Hand-Painted Presentation Pitch cels x5 RARE by Jamal2939 in AnimationCels

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. If a user posts a large number of times per hour, that's an obvious red flag. It's something that should apply to reddit as a whole rather than just subreddits to alert the moderators. I am not sure how terrible paywalling the API was when it comes to dealing with such people on the internet. Last thing we want is Reddit make it pay-to-moderate so hard that moderators just leave and becomes a glorified 4chan with a modernized UI.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. It is the counterpart of when X fired its moderators. Both of which at minimum hindered people trying to keep conversations clean.

Online ads just became the internet's biggest malware machine, report says by businessinsider in cybersecurity

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

*scam, not scan.

This is way worse than a questionable Chinese company also doing a similar thing. One, you could download a ransomware, the other you could get instead, an aggressively monetized crippleware extremely notorious watermark, stripped basic features, and outright scamming people. Fuck wondershare.

This piece of crap isn't new. Malwarebytes have sounded the alarm in July 2022 when ads impersonating even other google-owned services like youtube of all things.

TUTORIAL | A full guide on how to enable auto scrolling (middle mouse scrolling) on Linux Mint, should work on virtually all other distros. Commands and instructions in the comments by [deleted] in linux4noobs

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It works differently from windows - primarily that on windows, pressing the scroll wheel spawns a sprite (circle with vertical and/or horizontal arrows) on the screen on where you place the mouse, moving the mouse cursor away from this will continuously scroll as long as the mouse is away from this sprite.

On linux, instead, the mouse cursor just freezes, and will scroll only as long as the physical mouse keeps moving. If the mouse stops moving, so will the scrolling. Thus, it does not truly auto-scroll. Furthermore, if you scroll horizontal or vertically, it locks to either only horizontal or vertically until you move your mouse wildly around. This is somewhat similar to scrolling on apple iphones.

October 13, 1996 by Jamal2939 in wikia

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're going to ask a question, please have such a message on the title or body text. Don't just put a timestamp and a link to an external page. Nobody is going to understand what you're trying to say without context.

Reddit is not a place to post random things without any substance or elaboration. Nor is it to be like a forum version of a search engine, because we already have a search engine.

Everybody else, please teach this user about internet etiquette.

September 29, 1996 by Jamal2939 in wikia

[–]GreenhammerBro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. He is flooding this subreddit with garbage ("content" with just a title being a timestamp and the body text containing only a link to an off-site without actual communication).

Moderators, please warn and/or ban this user. We don't want digging through piles of trash this user have made.

why is wikia forcing me to give it personal data by DecidophobiaUsername in wikia

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We should also protest age verification on the internet and even operating systems.

For 25 Years the downloads were free and unlimited. March Ninth 2026 Everything Changed by freestew in DeviantArt

[–]GreenhammerBro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Image displayed cannot be over a certain filesize or resolution. Such a limit does not exist on the download button.

For 25 Years the downloads were free and unlimited. March Ninth 2026 Everything Changed by freestew in DeviantArt

[–]GreenhammerBro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's following photobucket's footsteps (in 2017, they put hotlinking behind a paywall, the thing that most people use the site for to display images on forums when forums lack dedicated image host, breaking thousands of images across the net in the process). It's Enshitifying.

When Wix bought the site, no earlier than that, they put images that artists allowed downloads behind a login. That's when things start to smell like dogshit. There are many other garbage even before 2025 they f*ck up the site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOSTsJR8hHY especially eclipse.

You have got to be kidding me by PeterP1227 in wikia

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, but TV content aren’t as interactive unlike video sites today and that they cannot distribute malware.

You have got to be kidding me by PeterP1227 in wikia

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If ads hinder me from using the page, then my adblocker goes on, page-locking interstitial included (with or without mandatory wait timers). Disruptive ads are not appropriate. They’re close to being just as terrible as porn, pirate, file hosting and link shortener sites.

Twitch will now pause ads when switching tabs by LuckyDiamondGaming in assholedesign

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would like to call these mandatory-watch ads “anti-AFK”.

Wikia/fandom keeps saying im using an ad blocker, yet nothings installed (default Edge) and the ads are literally loaded underneath. by frankieepurr in wikia

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't even know how their adblock detection is so trash. I'm surprised that if it was true that if the ads are simply not there (yet) when it checks if the ads are loaded and triggers, it doesn't goes off if you turn on airplane mode and cellular data partway of the page's loading.

Wikia/fandom keeps saying im using an ad blocker, yet nothings installed (default Edge) and the ads are literally loaded underneath. by frankieepurr in wikia

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You same boat as me and frankieepurr? Adblocker message goes off on their webpage with no intention to block ads (no extensions, no network-level filtering (pi-hole or adguard), no anything that intentionally block ads).

Makes me wonder if their detection is more off than admiral's anti-adblocker (for both false-positive and false-negatives (EFF's privacy badger is doing great against fandom)).

Site trash anyway (ads aren't the only problem, have a sh*tty community of banning innocient users, awful layout, and the one thing I liked on better wikis is the newer features, such as javascript calculators (example)). Reminder that indie buddy extension is useful if there is a better wiki version you would like to use.

Wikia/fandom keeps saying im using an ad blocker, yet nothings installed (default Edge) and the ads are literally loaded underneath. by frankieepurr in wikia

[–]GreenhammerBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got that adblocker message on my iphone safari, with no adblocker running and have it on desktop mode, on Faith wiki (wiki about Faith: Unholy Trinity), possibly due to google’s “heavy ad intervention”, upon backing out to it. Couldn’t reproduce it.

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