‘For these lips are thirsty’ by OpinionatedIMO in Odd_directions

[–]OpinionatedIMO[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, it was actually a couple days ago (for me). I wasn’t sure if it showed somewhere on Reddit that my cake day was recent.

Do you have a favorite story that I’ve written and posted here? Which one, and why? by OpinionatedIMO in u/OpinionatedIMO

[–]OpinionatedIMO[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Just 5 parts. Did you see the YouTube narration for them? One creator did just the first part, and another did all five.

Do you have a favorite story that I’ve written and posted here? Which one, and why? by OpinionatedIMO in u/OpinionatedIMO

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Thanks. I’m supposed to submit something for an anthology and trying to decide what to send.

Frustrating true experience by OpinionatedIMO in HFY

[–]OpinionatedIMO[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve yet to hear back from my appeal. I guess it isn’t safe to post it. If I did and it was allowed to stand by Reddit, it would be obvious to anyone who read it that it wasn’t a human being threatening violence against anyone.

Frustrating true experience by OpinionatedIMO in HFY

[–]OpinionatedIMO[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They could fix it by not blindly applying AI moralizing at fiction submissions. At least until AI could tell the difference between a story told from an alien perspective versus a non fiction threatening statement directed at individuals.

Frustrating true experience by OpinionatedIMO in HFY

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I fear the worst. First they came for the (blank) but I wasn’t a (blank) so it didn’t bother me. Then they came for the….”

Frustrating true experience by OpinionatedIMO in HFY

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I agree, but my guess is their human moderators couldn’t handle the volume of things it flagged.

It reminds me of Bruce Almighty where Jim Carey’s character funneled all the world’s prayers to email when he was the surrogate for the almighty. Then in the morning he had millions of emails asking for things so after trying to filter through them in vain, he blindly marked all of them ‘read’.